I don't get this "awe" factor for bronze. It costs less than stellar. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. No more, no less. The Bronze Age was well before the age of modern steel and back in the days where iron was being smelted, bronze was relegated to those that couldn't afford iron or steel. For that matter Aluminum at the turn of the 20th century was approximately the same price per troy ounce as pure gold.
Again I just don't understand this "wow" factor for the bronze case. There are plenty of diver watches, on gnomon watches that are gen with real ETA for a similar price as the repped Bronzo. Titanium is the priciest non precious metal that watchmakersuse for cases and while tough and light Titanium scratches and scuffs so easily. The forged carbon is also impressive for how it's made.
I have a good friend who is married to a sculptor that owns a bronze foundry in the Monterrey area of California. Bronze is a good medium for sculptures because of its ease of smelting, use in casting and the basic polishing. All of this can be done without modern machine tools, but it's a simple metal. It's a bit less complex than brass. Both can polish nicely with brasso.
Anyhow, sorry to thread crash. I just couldn't figure out why the 2 different factories cases would need complex analysis. It's not a complex alloy and the Chinese have had use of bronze for millenniums.
It was nice of ALE to offer free chemical analysis, butwhat else besides copper and tin, but what else would you expect to find in a sample of metal claimed as bronze? There really are not that many metals much less expensive than actual bronze?
"What should we start with?"
"An '82 Margaux."
"Is it good?"
"Good? It will make you believe in God!"
Again I just don't understand this "wow" factor for the bronze case. There are plenty of diver watches, on gnomon watches that are gen with real ETA for a similar price as the repped Bronzo. Titanium is the priciest non precious metal that watchmakersuse for cases and while tough and light Titanium scratches and scuffs so easily. The forged carbon is also impressive for how it's made.
I have a good friend who is married to a sculptor that owns a bronze foundry in the Monterrey area of California. Bronze is a good medium for sculptures because of its ease of smelting, use in casting and the basic polishing. All of this can be done without modern machine tools, but it's a simple metal. It's a bit less complex than brass. Both can polish nicely with brasso.
Anyhow, sorry to thread crash. I just couldn't figure out why the 2 different factories cases would need complex analysis. It's not a complex alloy and the Chinese have had use of bronze for millenniums.
It was nice of ALE to offer free chemical analysis, butwhat else besides copper and tin, but what else would you expect to find in a sample of metal claimed as bronze? There really are not that many metals much less expensive than actual bronze?
"What should we start with?"
"An '82 Margaux."
"Is it good?"
"Good? It will make you believe in God!"
