Panerai surges ahead with the most quietly innovative materials in the watchmaking business.
A master of stealth and a pioneer in military instruments, Panerai is always exploring new frontiers in watchmaking. The results of its creative research and risktaking, however, are much less obvious. But look a little harder at what the Italian manufacture has brought forth and the truth naturally reveals itself.
BMG-Tech
BMG-Tech – BMG stands for bulk metallic glass – is similar in appearance to titanium, but comes in a slightly darker shade of grey. Material science engineers will definitely have heard of it, but here’s the first instance of it being used as a case for a watch.
Panerai explains the manufacturing process as “a high-pressure injection process at a high temperature, followed by a cooling process lasting for only a few seconds, so that the atoms do not have enough time to become arranged in an ordered, regular structure”.
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