Many modern diving watches are now made of titanium. This has many advantages, such as Titan has several properties that make it perfect for deep-sea clocks. Titan as a "space age metal" is known, is strong and resistant to corrosion and is occurring all over the planet in water and bottom sediments. Discovered in 1791, you can combine with other elements to form useful, light alloys, which are used by the aviation and aerospace industries, but also produceas dentists and the military. The metal is found in a variety of sporting goods, automotive products, jewelry, mobile phones and watches sports.
First, in 1978, used in watches, from International Watch Co. (commonly known as IWC) is located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and partly owned by Ferdinand Porshe at this time, the company took advantage of titanium for the production the first bracelet wristwatch in the world. In the wake of this success, the company has developed a case of full and titanium braceletfor another watchmaker in 1980, although the company was forced to withdraw from the project then leave IWC - a manufacturer of internal movements at the time - take complete control of the production process of titanium cases.
A titanium watch is not trivial and IWC has managed to perfect the process of creating an art-polished titanium case. They released the world's first chronograph in titanium, which originally sold for about$ 1300 - a bargain considering how revolutionary engineering process was at that time.
The trend has begun and titanium watches are now everywhere. Almost every watch manufacturer in the world has a clock titanium in their product lines. The Citizen Watch Company is the largest, the use of titanium in his sport and diving watches. Titanium is stronger than the 30% and 50% lighter than steel, corrosion resistant and hypoallergenic. Although it is more expensive than steel can scratch easily andPlace, as a citizen watch overcomes these problems with a multi-layer glass coating that prevents scratches.
There are several factors that contribute to increasing the number of diver's watches, which have guided the use of titanium in their cases. Titan is the ideal material for dive watches the event because of its strength, lightness and durability in the marine environment. Watches Titanium lightweight feel on the wrist, and there is plenty of titanium are available.
The diver's watch listProducers to use the metal titanium is infinite, Seiko, Citizen, Omega, Rolex and Invicta and the list goes on ... Prices tend to start around $ 250 for these watches and can be much higher in the watches of high quality retail. Other titanium diving watches are produced each year. From space age material to make a practical underwater, ocean-resistant watches for divers, the tendency titanium case should last for many years.