From a market perspective, the brand is certainly very important, but most consumers know little about the domestic international brands, they are not well known in the country, and some famous brands are usually large-scale production of high-grade watches, but occasionally produce some limited edition special watches, rare, they may well be high-end watch; In addition, the flow of high-grade watchs and ordinary watchs, generally it is responsible for sales by the stores, and some special high-end watches, usually the way to the vendor directly for customization; Those high-end antique watch is by auction or direct transactions between collectors way.
From a technical point of view, high-grade sheet production process is very complicated. Some people think that watch is a complex high-end watch, this is a mistake. Indeed, there are many high-end watch is a complex watch, but the complexity of the watch is not necessarily high-end watch. A high-end watch may be a simple watch, the key lies in its production process and materials. Some high-end watch is often used for the appearance of precious metals or rare materials, parts, and inlaid with high quality and rare gems. Common materials are gold, rose gold, white gold, platinum and gold color, etc., very few such rare iron meteorite with natural materials; common gems are diamonds, natural rubies and sapphires, pearls and so on. There are also some special high-grade watch, the ordinary stainless steel case, this is because the value of its internal movement is much larger than the value of those precious metals, these watchs are often accompanied by movement of the complexity of some classical institutions, like the calendar, spring hit the score , after needle tourbillon stopwatch and institutions, such watchs are often the eyes of the high-end collector watch.
Production process is high-grade form of life, the appearance of high-end pieces of the watch is usually crafted, beautifully decorated case the surface is often polished and brushed, and hand-carved decorative patterns, brand logo and text, etc.; The precious metal disk used made and carved by hand or machine design decoration. Particularly important for high-end watch movement, the movement of all parts of the surface have been careful grinding and polishing or hand-carved, and stressed that all the details on the movement, such as the screw head to be mirror-polished, but also often with blue steel processing; splint shows are making a very nice side chamfer, chamfer surface uniformly smooth, mirror-polished, especially the junction of two chamfered, there must be related to the straight line; plywood surface is also decorated with scales or Geneva wave pattern decoration, The Agency also easy to wear on the movement set of functional and decorative inlaid in one of the stones; in the space provided on the splint, often carved gilt decoration brand logo and text.
High-end design of the watch there are some principles of movement: Generally not a tight fit, riveting, welding and adhesive bonding and other techniques, it would enhance its maintainability, as in some brands of watches, jewel bearings are used and adjustment screws , escapement fork also uses screws to connect the various parts. In addition to seals, but generally do not use organic material parts, such as plastics, synthetic organic materials, glue and plant materials, allows the use of natural or synthetic mineral materials, such as ruby, crystal, ceramics and enamel and so on. Because the international watch industry is generally considered the aging deterioration of organic materials will, life short, contrary to the principles handed down high-end watch; high the structure of the emphasis on performance and appearance, processing technology is not emphasized, therefore, the high-end watch usually flexible production line with the manual production process, it is impossible for large-scale, high-volume production.
In short, as a high-end watch, it must be concerned with all the details related to this watch, can long maintain its superior performance and value of art appreciation.
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