Once upon a time, Titanium and Titanium Welded Tube were mistaken for rare metals and expensive. Today, titanium, once used in aerospace, has been pulled down from the pedestal and become a widely used metal. This is also reflected in the watch. As a watch media people, can easily find, titanium metal watch more and more, even Rolex, now also "titanium".
Rolex has used titanium before, but it didn't have a real titanium watch until Nov. 1, when, without warning, it released its new Oyster Perpetual Deepsea Challenge. It is based on the Rolex experimental watch worn by James Cameron, who made the record solo dive to 10,908 metres in the Mariana Trench in 2012.
Rolex Grade 5 titanium -- RLX titanium -- replaced the 904L stainless steel in the case and bracelet because the original watch was too heavy for everyday wear. It is also the first all-titanium Rolex watch.
Although titanium metal has many advantages, but personally think Rolex mainly value its "light weight" this feature. In fact, the new watch weighs a remarkable 30 percent less than the experimental model James Cameron took with him on a dive in 2012. The weight of the whole table is 251 grams, although not very light, but indeed also in the range of daily wear.
Titanium is light and strong, resistant to corrosion, and skin-friendly, so we know it's not a rare metal, but it's still very popular. And thanks to the progress of technology, once "noble" titanium metal is more and more widely used, not only watches, in the jewelry, water cup and other fields also have more and more popular degree.
Therefore, most of the time, I will feel a "titanium metal" will slowly replace the "stainless steel" trend, and the field of watch brings me this feeling more profound. But when I asked, "Will titanium replace steel?" And then I think the answer is no. First of all, the cost of titanium alloy is higher than that of stainless steel, so there is a need for the existence of more user-friendly stainless steel.
And even if the technological change, let the cost of titanium alloy down, not to say that this is not a matter of overnight, the existence of steel table is meaningful. Bronze material, which was once eliminated, has become a unique trend today. What do you think?