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I have taken macro photo of moser watches with pallet fork in gold… any another watchmaker have their pallet fork special ? ...  

It doesn't appear to be and I would suspect it would be a poor choice of material for such a functional part. Typically they are nickel-plated brass, and one that is 'yellowish" in colour could be due to thin plating. (This one looks yellow, but not all y...  

Moving parts that are frequently stopped should be as light as possible. Hence the frequent use of silicon these days.

Both escape wheel and pallet fork appear in gold colour ...  

en.worldtempus.com "A particularly hard white gold alloy is accordingly used in this escapement assembly for the pallet fork and the escape wheel." But it doesn't sound like they do it because it's a good material, but because they just toss the w... 

Love your videos on IG👍

That’s me… I wish some day I can post short video here as well

From GaryG's recent article on photographing a GF: ...  

I’m not surprise if they does that… I hv not seen any other watches black polished as good as GF too

It’s a short video … zoom in to view the pallet fork bouncing Crop out for this discussion

Or is the palet jewel not set all the way in?

Watchmaker to adjust base on the contact point on the escape wheel.

I had a moser with gold escapement. But I noticed that some movements with same model don't have gold escapement. And the double hairspring as well. It seems like H.Moser uses gold escapement and double hairspring randomly on their movement? ...  

New moser movement definitely cutting down cost Screwed gold Chaton also missing nowadays