Not quite that easy...

I think we have to start with gold plate and rolled gold don't make a gold watch, at best it is gold colored.
After that look for 750 (18k) and the weight. Anything else is babble.
I have only purchased one gold watch, a Tissot. It came with a certificate that it contains 28.3 grams 18k gold.
There are no questions.
I made a gold watch for my wife which contains 39 grams. Again no questions.
There are so many ways of making a gold case, most are stamped and then given a final light milling, but it is possible to make a gold case for a mans watch with less than 8 grams of gold these days with electrochemical methods.
The only way we have to keep these things honest is to demand always the gold purity and the weight.
Otherwise we will be lost in the realm of marketing pander, without hope.
Don

Actual Gold content in an IWC....compared to ???

By: justpen : December 30th, 2007-03:07

Hi All, Happy New Year. I would like to ask if anyone has any comment about the differing Gold content of various watch brands. I ask this for a few reasons; 1. We are happy to pay a higher cost for gold over steel, but it is nice to have some appreciatio...

I think there´s a much easier approach

By: PeterCDE : December 30th, 2007-04:01

G'day, if you´re to compare the gold content, it´s always the same. All serious brands make use of 18K alloys, hence the gold content is always 75 percent of the metal mass. If you do know the actual weight (without crystals, gaskets, movement spacers or ...

Here are some pictures to show how IWC measures the gold content after a watch is made...it is also done before the case is cut. Later..I will, if you wish..post in pictures, how the assays are done with an electron spectrometer and a denity comparison de...

Pls show more about the density composition and antimagnetism topics. Thanks!! [nt]

By: Kong : January 5th, 2008-01:55

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