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By: Tick Talk » Myth Bust Confirmed

Tick Talk » Myth Bust Confirmed — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:02:45 +0000

[...] Last week I mentioned that I would carry out some tests with a fellow watchmaker to confirm whether or not the rose-coloured plating on vintage Omega watches contained any gold, as a follow up to a discussion that sprouted off of this post on the Omega 321. Following are the results from the samples we tested. [...]

By: J.Edwards

J.Edwards — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:21:13 +0000

Great point J.Peter. Definitely a factor to be taken into consideration.

By: J.Peter

J.Peter — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:32:10 +0000

I don’t have a lot of experience with gold tests but If this is a standard acid test, the plating may not be thick enough to determine whether it is gold or not. Acid typically burns through non-pure gold plating very fast and begins to work on the underlying metal. Clearly rose gold plating cannot be pure or it would be “gold” colored. I am looking forward to the results however.