Titanium watches enjoy great popularity alongside watches made of steel (such as 316L stainless steel). Therefore, it is not surprising that numerous watch manufacturers have, for example, diving watches or chronographs made of this material in their collection. This article will therefore take a closer look at the advantages and disadvantages of wristwatches made of titanium. You will also learn what titanium actually is, what properties it has and how it is manufactured.
Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti in the chemical periodic table and belongs to the transition metals. Chromium, silver, gold, iron, nickel, copper and zinc also belong to this group. With a density of 4.5 g/cm³, titanium just barely belongs to the group of light metals (up to 5 g/cm³) and has the best strength-to-density ratio in this group. Titanium has a metallic white shine, is robust, biocompatible, resistant, and temperature- and corrosion-resistant. It is also very light, weighing about half of steel or nickel alloys of the same dimensions.
Because of these properties, titanium is a very interesting material that is used in various industries such as aerospace, chemistry, medicine and, of course, in the jewelry and watchmaking industries.
Titanium has the potential to be a key critical material that can be substituted for more widely used higher-carbon metals, particularly stainless steel and aluminum. It is a superior metal to stainless steel and aluminum due to its properties including high strength-to-weight ratio and excellent corrosion resistance and is critical to the global aerospace, medical, space and defense sectors.