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Chopard White Gold Difference.....

Thanks Scot for the kind feedback.  I appreciate it.
It will not be easy without the support of many nice Mods, and Art is one of them.

I will try my best to help as buying a watch is not cheap exercise. 
When I started, I wish there was a sounding-board to get clarity for an upcoming purchase. 
Well, Bernard Cheong in this forum did just that  and hopefully I could extend that to our friends here.
I am still learning every moment, every day! And its fun


Some inputs to your questions:

I believe Chopard's years of know-how in the high-jewelery craft & business has placed her in a vantage position for intricate and complex precious metalwork. 

Starting  with the raw, Chopard controls the processes by preparing their own 'blends'. 
Chopard bought about 2.5 tons of high-grade gold every year which were smelted in Chopard Geneva and produced into various gold colours/shades (blends) like :  YG 2N & 3N; RG 4N and lastly WG.

To produce the raw WG alloy,13% of palladium was blended to a given mass of gold. After which the alloy is rhodium-plated.

Chopard pays extra attention/importance to the quality of their WG alloy to ensure their WG retains its original greyish colour after a few years of wear & tear; and not the ugly underlying shade of yellow showing through. A common complaint about WG in the market. 
The reason for this ugly patchy  yellow surfacing (after the plating worn-off) is some manufacturers just rhodium-plated the gold (skipping the palladium inclusion step) to provide the white colour.

Hope it helps.

Kong






This message has been edited by Kong on 2007-12-10 21:24:27