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 Posted: Fri Sep 27th, 2013 02:54 pm
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Well, due to all the recent controversies about different bronzes in watches that are being advertised as 'CuSn8', and in light of being as transparent as possible to our customers, we sent in our bronze material to be tested.

Here are the results, and you will note that it can be closely called CuSn6. We source our materials in china and have never hid this fact, this is as close as we can get and it is none distinguishable in terms of colour to CuSn8.


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Good stuff right there. If anyone ever wants metal tested by XRF I have one at work (testing is free, it only takes 7 minutes). All I would need is a wafer with a diameter at least 1 5/8 inches and no thicker than 1.5 inches (to fit in the cavity). I would return your sample (I just like science). I can do oxides and elemental calculations easily.

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Well, here's what we are using it for:

http://oceanictime.blogspot.sg/

No bronze but brass, same same debacle here....

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movas wrote: Well, here's what we are using it for:

http://oceanictime.blogspot.sg/

No bronze but brass, same same debacle here....
love the watch and brass is not going to change my mind about getting one on my wrist,but what happened to the bronze?

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Sorry, I think I'm confusing everyone, what I meant was, there will not be another "oh it's brass, not bronze but it's the same thing" debacle here.

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 Posted: Fri Nov 1st, 2013 08:51 pm
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movas wrote: Sorry, I think I'm confusing everyone, what I meant was, there will not be another "oh it's brass, not bronze but it's the same thing" debacle here.sounds good Sean,I hope that you also send in a finished watch sample to test as well.ThumbsUp02.gif

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