No, it isn't a modern painting or a mural. It is the guilloche of our Curl Curl dial as seen under a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) under 100x magnification. The image is taken by Tim Murphy, who works for NewSpec, a microscope specialist.
Note how clean and burr-free our individual cuts are! We are shaving that titanium like cheese. This is testament not just to the shaping of the diamond cutter (which we actually do in-house, remember the slurry?) but also to Kern's hydrostatic guides and the rigidity of the machine itself. I reckon we should turn this image into a wall poster!
The tiny area which looks like the moon's surface is actually a micro-particle-blasted dial surface. Still not impressed? The 100 times magnification of the SEM is actually set to 'low'. |
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