Catalog: Hard Materials
Company/Brand: Rado
450c in Hard Materials by Rado
we developed a great variety of colors apart from black white gold and platinum we currently offer high-tech ceramic watches in pink azure burgundy blue and metallic purple as well the raw material is ultra-fine zirconium-oxide or titaniumcarbide powder with a grain size of about 1/1000th mm approximately one fiftieth of the diameter of a human hair the powder is homogenized and granulated a process known as ceramics injection molding cim enables us to produce well-defined and highly complex shapes such as case or bracelet elements the pre-shaped forms are heated in a special furnace at a temperature ...

tungsten-carbide powder is the basis of this legendary rado material at a pressure of 1,000 bar the tungsten-carbide powder is pressed by injection molding into blanks in a vacuum furnace at a temperature of 1,450ºc the blanks are sintered and take on their final form and hardness numerous additional steps follow before we finally create the unmistakable rado brilliance by polishing the surface with diamond powder in addition to the natural steel color of hardmetal we offer highly resistant coatings in gold and black the original an extraordinary mission