P ropracovaná art form enamel was used to decorate a small number of rare and exclusive clock faces in the last 60 20th century. Thirty years later, at a time when the company Ulysse Nardin undergoing total recovery, the company is not satisfied only with continuing their great achievements in the field of precision watch screwdriver mechanics. Concurrently, she aims to restore the art of enamel, refined decorative technique that dials of watches gives a very unique look.
As far as design, since its inception in 1846, Ulysse Nardin is one of the most nejzářnějších names. The company was the first who began to use new materials and gave rise to fresh and fine design. Over the last 25 years has a enamel in their collections prominent place.
Enamel is composed of molten silicon oxide, red lead, and soda. Normally colorless, but when mixed with other elements of the enamel is able to create contrasting shades with a soft, magical depth. Among the elements used to add color to melt include iron, which produces a gray, chrome for mixing green and iodine, which delivers a fiery red color. If the temperature gets hot enamel 800-1200 degrees Celsius, liquefies and can bind to the metal. Enamel is applied on the watch dial with a goose quill. It should be applied slowly, in order to set up the appropriate color depth and get the right shade. Problem watch screwdriver with enamel is that it is extremely difficult to have it completely under control. Given that the individual be coated layers of enamel must be repeated burning, watch dials are exposed to high levels of risk. At any stage can break, they can create air or gas bubbles, which left behind a small tear, or the colors may simply optimal. But the reward for perseverance in this high-stress handicraft work and for reconciliation with the relatively high percentage of cases where the enamel fails, the clock faces that are simply stunning to look at. Techniques enamel
Flinqué This method of decorating company chose Ulysse Nardin watch screwdriver watches at Hour Striker San Marco. Faces formed flinqué technique differs from simple enamelled dials that are on their first lathed serious themes - the usual pattern of sunlight - and then melted above the enamel layer of enamel.
Champlevé This is to change the technique of enamel, in which into a metal plate (dial) engrave a chisel, and the wells are then filled with enamel. Work piece is then fired until the enamel begins to melt, after cooling the surface of the object doleští.
This is the technique of cloisonne enamel, during which outlines the proposals dials placed directly on the dial itself or on paper. Very thin strips of gold wire with a width of only 0.07 mm (no thicker than a human hair), hand bend and using two forceps applied to the outline. Individual cells that complete the detail, dimension and nuance of the scene are also made of gold wire and set-up set for curriculum. The colors are then selected for each cell separately in order to create watch screwdriver the effect of the cloister. On the dial made by this technique is applied five layers of glass. This means that in such hodinkového watch screwdriver codebook is all colored cells filled and fired in a furnace five times (800-1200 degrees C) before it is ready for polishing. Different levels of color then evoke a sense of depth and třírozměrnosti, which awakens enamel dial to life.
Cloisonné technique (known watch screwdriver in English as cellular or scrape email) used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. Among the famous early examples of wire-email is a set of six Mycenaean rings, dating back to the 13th century BC as decorative art reached cloisonné enamelling technique peak of popularity in the 10th to 12 century, especially in the Byzantine Empire. The technique watch screwdriver was also popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. Cloisonné as an art form perhaps watch screwdriver the most famous Fabergé eggs. Technique "cloisonné" which in French watch screwdriver literally means "septate" is to create a decorative watch screwdriver motif with various color cells that are made of bent wire and it gradually fills colored enamel.
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