What is a ceramic watch? Advantages and disadvantages and development history

In recent years, ceramic materials have become popular in the watch industry. Let’s learn about ceramic watches with Tnhelearning.edu.vn, their advantages and disadvantages, and their development history!

What is a ceramic watch?

A ceramic watch is a watch with details made from the ceramic group , these details can be the strap, the case or the whole outer frame including the strap, case and bezel. In Vietnam, many people still call ceramic watches a stone watch.

Specifically, ceramics are inorganic solids that are not metals. Compounds that make ceramics for watches are oxygen, nitro and carbon. Therefore, materials such as diamond, graphite, glass, sapphire crystal are also classified as ceramic.

Advantages of ceramic watches

Durable

Because ceramic has a higher hardness than stainless steel and is resistant to scratches, almost absolute water resistance. In addition, they do not fade and are easy to clean.

Light-weight

It looks strong and heavy, but in fact, this material is very light (only 2 – 6 grams/cubic centimeter ) to bring a light and elegant wearing feeling to the user.

High aesthetics

The watch band using Ceramic material is considered to be more aesthetic due to its unique design, shiny and eye-catching.

Does not cause allergies

Ceramic is non-irritating, non-toxic when in contact with the skin of the hand, so it is absolutely safe for the health of the user.

Disadvantages of ceramic watches

Fragile, chipping

Metals can be bent flexibly, while ceramics are likely to break if the bending or bending force is large. At the same time, ceramic watches are still capable of chipping when encountering strong impacts.

Difficult to craft

Because this is a special material, it is quite difficult to make , and it is not too difficult to understand if these models are quite expensive.

The history of the development of ceramic watches

Rado was the first watchmaker to experiment with ceramic with the release of the Diastar watch in 1962.

Then, in 1973 , the Omega brand began research and development on cases made from a variation of ceramic and produced a Seamaster Cermet.

However, it was not Omega or Rado, but IWC was the manufacturer that proved that “ceramics can be used in watchmaking” when they released the IWC Da Vinci Ref. 3755 in 1986 . As a result, the Jaeger Lecoulte brand has used ceramic to make bearings that do not use lubricants for the movement.

Since 2005 , many sports watches have appeared with ceramic bezels, notably the Seamaster Planet Ocean Liquid Metal.

Until 2013 , both Omega and Rolex brought great breakthroughs in ceramic technology. Specifically, Omega introduced the Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon – the first ceramic chronograph to feature a ceramic dial, clasp, crown and buttons.

Omega ‘s Planet Ocean collection featuring a ceramic bezel known as Deep Black was released in 2016.

And in 2017 , a dive watch, called the Big Blue made from blue ceramic, was also brought to the public.

Not only Rolex, Omega but countless other brands have proven that ceramic is a great material in the world thanks to modern technology and constant creativity.

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