3D Printed Watches

[superlative]

http://www.fubiz.net/en/2013/11/26/3d-printed-watches/

Super cool! These watches look like there from Porsche Design.

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[Cromag]

Interesting. I like the simple design shape and the lugs are neat. I wonder if it's a working watch. Most likely a quartz model though.

[automatico]

The only thing made on a 'printer' is the case, everything else is made the same way as any $75 Titanium watch.

A few years ago Seiko was making stainless steel Arctura cases out of pressed/heated metallic powder (PM) while Swatch made Irony cases by this method. The PM manufacturing method = fast production and little or no follow up machine work on intricate cases.

 

The future of case making may well be the 'printer' method after it is perfected.

 

Q..."Who makes the best sub?"

A...Zerox.    

 

http://www.ctia.com.cn/TungstenNews/2009/20890.html

 

Ever wonder how they make tungsten carbide watch cases for so little $$?

 

http://www.chinatungsten.com/

[fraggle42]

Jesus H Christ, here's a page from that Chinese Tungsten mining company that highlights the great properties tungsten has when making FAKE GOLD coins and bars:-

 

http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/en/alloy11.htm

 

Talk about taking the pee!

 

"It is necessary to tell that tungsten gold-plated would not work for several reasons but a coin with a tungsten center and gold all around tungsten alloy jewelry could not be detected as counterfeit by density measurement alone."

[Nanuq]

Sintered Steel, baby. It's been used in motorcycle engines for years, partly because it's very receptive to oil films and the alloys can be very carefully controlled.

[Horophile]

Imagine getting (for example) an authentic Hublot Classic Fusion, gutting it, piece by piece; scan each of them to renders on the computer.. Printing them, and making replica's out of 3d printed material

[PeteM]

It does open up some amazing possibilities ... but I really dont know enough about them or what the final product looks like to know if it could be used to eplicate external parts of a watch accurately not in terms of shape or size etc but in terms of finish and the look of the original material... ?

 

For example using the Hublot ...could the 3D printer create a bezel that could be made to look like the ceramic bezel or any bezel material or would it just be a great shape etc but no look of the gen?

 

It might sort out that big flaw of the V6 bezels though that they all have... !!  ... which i wish they would sort out... That edging...always too many cuts compared to gen... and easy to see on the wrist ;(

 

At the moment I would be more interested to see if a movemnt could be done...say like a PAM P2000..at the moment the rep stuff aint great but could these printers do the job in some way to help or indeed completely..?