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 Posted: Sun Oct 6th, 2013 01:40 pm
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Patrik72



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 He he, yeah does Germans know how to make steel. Been looking at Sinn. Submaringrade steel used for the case and then fill them with argon gas. (Guessing that is so no humidity can be built up inside the watch). wowzer.gif



I know the Chinese are buying up a lot of steel, copper and aluminum from Europe. Again, im guessing this is used for their own "special projects" and the homemade metals is used for exporting. Which as you say meets the minimum requirements in quality control but will not stand up to the high grade that we produce.

For a watch its not such a big deal really, but when it comes to oil-rigs and other equipment that goes through extreme stresses. Then a probable disaster is not far away.

I have mostly worked with aluminum, quality control and later flying a desk at a different metal company. I find it strange that we sell our own metals and when we realize that opps we need more! Because there is a lack of, lets say copper. Then we buy  the Chinese copper, who in the first place has bought most of the available stocks from Europe or US causing the low stocks of precious metals. homerthinks.gif