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·The new BWD Carrera uses "Fordite" dials, which have quite a cool story:
"Fordite is made from paint residue that builds up over many years in the old fashioned industrial bays of car makers.
It can be scraped up, shaped, sliced and polished into any form and, when used for watch dials, ensures no two are the same.
The Fordite material used in this collaboration has come from the Ford factories in Michigan, USA, from the 1970-1990s era.
“What I really find fascinating about working with the Fordite material is that it is very close to actually being able to create 4D art. As well as the normal 3D aspects, you are actually incorporating time as an additional element. You are quite literally moving through layers of time, of human endeavour. Each layer you uncover represents someone painting a car, and then that car went out somewhere into the world. It’s a very fun concept to have kicking around in the back of your head,” says Black Badger’s James Thompson."
https://www.watchpro.com/bamford-an...-fordite-dials-for-tag-heuer-carrera-watches/
"Fordite is made from paint residue that builds up over many years in the old fashioned industrial bays of car makers.
It can be scraped up, shaped, sliced and polished into any form and, when used for watch dials, ensures no two are the same.
The Fordite material used in this collaboration has come from the Ford factories in Michigan, USA, from the 1970-1990s era.
“What I really find fascinating about working with the Fordite material is that it is very close to actually being able to create 4D art. As well as the normal 3D aspects, you are actually incorporating time as an additional element. You are quite literally moving through layers of time, of human endeavour. Each layer you uncover represents someone painting a car, and then that car went out somewhere into the world. It’s a very fun concept to have kicking around in the back of your head,” says Black Badger’s James Thompson."
https://www.watchpro.com/bamford-an...-fordite-dials-for-tag-heuer-carrera-watches/
