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Golden Hands
Thanks for alerting us to this aspect.
Very educational.
With all respect
By: aaronm : December 25th, 2008-12:37
Different gold alloys have vastly different properties. The usual material for the escapement spring that is part of a detente-escapement, which is deformed once per complete oscillation, is a gold alloy, although I don't know the karat. The contact wires...
Ahh, but legally
By: aaronm : December 25th, 2008-13:08
There is, to my knowledge, no definition of "solid" or "massive". Gold, in the US, must only be 10k or more, 9k in the UK. So calling a 0.2 gram, 12k hand "massive solid gold" is legal, and yet also deceptive, so in my mind exactly what I'd expect. I also...