The Time Preserve at watchplating.com is your exclusive source to plate your stainless steel replica watch in Gold, Platinum, Rhodium or Ruthenium plating. Instead of buying a Gold Plated Replica from the factory, purchase a stainless steel version which we can plate.
Our Gold plating is vastly superior to buying a Replica watch "gold plated" from the factory. It is thicker and harder:
Typical
Factory gold plating layer: 5 mils. ( 1/8 micron )
Our
gold plated layer thickness: 56 mils. ( 7 microns )
Ours is 11 times thicker than Replica Factory finishes
Many times, replicas aren't even plated with real gold but actually Titanium Nitride. This type of "gold" finish usually has a brownish or overly yellow appearance.
Often factory Gold layers are applied using a PVD method and this produces a thin, soft gold layer. Our electroplated gold layer is 10 times harder. It is harder than stainless steel.
Hardness Comparison
PVD applied gold: ____________20 knoop
Our Real Electroplated Gold: ___200 knoop
Stainless Steel: _______________138 knoop
We can:
Plate your stainless steel replica watch and band with Real Gold 12k, 14k, 18k, Platinum, Rhodium, or Ruthenium.
To do this the movement, case and band pieces are disassembled. The individual pieces are put through the same process we use when restoring and plating genuine watches such as Omega, Cartier, Tiffany, and Raymond Weil. After plating it is reassembled and functionally tested. Timing is adjusted.
NOTE:
Replica watches with an existing Gold finish cannot be processed because PVD cannot be cost effectively removed and Gold Plating does not bond to it.