OceanicTime H2O Watches STEEL development

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By TLex Got steel?! H2O Watches have, and it is ain’t your ordinary run-of-the-mill 316L Stainless steel – theirs has been specially developed in Germany to have an extremely high corrosion resistance (particularly to seawater) with around 50% higher Vickers rating of hardness compared to the aforementioned 316L.



Its Nickel content is also particularly low with less than 0.3% making it an ultra-clean steel that is comparable in its specification to medical grade biocompatible Titanium. As hard as this steel is, it’s almost negligible Nickel content means it won’t be hard on your skin making Nickel allergies a thing of the past.



H2O Watches are currently working with a German CNC manufacturing company using their latest 6-axle CNC machines to produce their own controlled case production. After successfully passing the testing phase - future H2O & HELBERG cases will be made in-house for certain models and using with H2O’s new steel; starting with the H2O ORCA MONO 2, which is ready for a first test production in March!



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Isn't H2O , Helberg the company that says for 3 or 4 years that is going to produce in-house their own cases in Germany but so far nothing?

All they had been doing so far is using designs from other companies including UTS and work with a german engineer that used to work for Fricker and now seems to be based in Switzerland that makes the CAD drawings to them and they end up sub contracting their work to China and Hong Kong as rest of the micro watch brands and many Swiss Brands.

Clemens is an intelligent and arrogant marketing guy whose work is to sell dreams to people and seems their customers take it by the letter without pouring in some salt ...

They make nice watches but they try to perceive to be more than what they are. They are a nice watch brand/company that makes their watches in China as majority of watch industry though they deny it or try to make it look as nothing important.