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The Golden Bridge was much more than a timepiece. It sent its own messages. Calabrese understood that the message meant that the watchmaker and his work shouldn't be concealed any longer. Panerai Luminor Replica Watches understood that mechanics and art could coexist to create beautiful, wearable objects.

In 1980, the Panerai Luminor Replica Watches Golden Bridge was inaugurated

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Original Golden Bridge's serial cases consisted of two sapphire crystals hand-faceted in a complicated bombe-creuse form that looked like a half-moon of a hexagon. They were held together by four golden screws and two bases of yellow-gold. Number 001 was given to the Musee International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds,Panerai Luminor Replica Watches on 25 September 1980. It is still there.

It is important to understand how synthetic sapphire cristal is made. This will help you understand the novelty of the watch during the Quartz Crisis. This flame fusion uses a single ingot synthetic colourless corundum to create the required size in just 15 hours. Nature takes about 100,000 years to achieve this.

Close-up of Golden Bridge, showing its bevelled sapphire cases

Diamond is harder than corundum and can therefore cut sapphire crystal. The initial cutting of the slices takes between five and eight hours. After cutting the pieces of corundum, the blanks are ground into the desired shape in two-hundredths to a millimetre. Then they undergo a series operations by highly skilled craftsmen, including bevelling, faceting and doming. Each sapphire crystal size and shape requires its own machinery.Breitling Chronomat B01 Replica In most cases, the equipment is developed by the supplier and cannot be purchased.