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WOW!! what a great video on making enamel watches - and I have a question - here in the U.S. when we want to flatten a piece of hot enameled metal that has warped we use a flat iron as it comes out of the kiln - I see that you use coal - but how can it flatten metal that has already cooled ? Is is because you are using very thin gague copper?
Thank,
Trish
Hi Trish,
the thickness of the finished dial is 0.80 to 1.10 mm according to our customer, the precision must be 0.80 mm +/- 0.05 as an example. This flattening operation is very delicate because it must at the same time realize cooking inscriptions enamel and without distoying the surface. Our enemalist who's realize it works in our workshop since 1981 and he is 50 years old you can imagine. We must wait till the surface is a bit hard before pushing with the coal. We loose about 40% of the dials during this operation. This is a frustration but the watch industry is very demanding of the quality and for that type of dial we have between 60 to 75% of waste.
Copper plate is about 0.20mm thick.
Regards,
Claude-Eric
Hello .Brawo !!! Very nice. I would like to work there. I love your shields.
My works :
I do not know how to make printed numbers
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