Forged Carbon Fiber (in a watch video)

[Locutus D'Borg]

* Hopefully, the video link works. Otherwise, it is a YouTube video titled The 15 Hottest Watches (by Andrew Morgan).

* This is a watch video. If that is an issue, Mods, please delete my post. Oh, Andrew is hilarious in that British way.


The first watch discussed is a Tissot PRX made of forged carbon fiber. Andrew talks about the benefits of this CF vs the regular kind.

Question: This forged CF looks like the common fat CF or shredded CF. Are they the same, or is forged CF different & fairly uncommon due to its cost? Because it would seem to be great for knives.

 

[Danke42]

* Hopefully, the video link works. Otherwise, it is a YouTube video titled The 15 Hottest Watches (by Andrew Morgan).

* This is a watch video. If that is an issue, Mods, please delete my post. Oh, Andrew is hilarious in that British way.


The first watch discussed is a Tissot PRX made of forged carbon fiber. Andrew talks about the benefits of this CF vs the regular kind.

Question: This forged CF looks like the common fat CF or shredded CF. Are they the same, or is forged CF different & fairly uncommon due to its cost? Because it would seem to be great for knives.

That's just regular old chopped carbon. It's been around for a couple decades. You chop up the material, add the resin and squeeze in a mold. It's super strong, some people really like the looks and the parts are made way faster than a traditional layup. Thank you Lamborghini.

 

[Tsujigiri]

I think there's a lot of confusion and unintentional misrepresentation in the watch world as far as carbon is concerned. Forged carbon was originally a way to get a lot of the properties of carbon in oddly shaped components that couldn't be made with layups or machining. It still wasn't cheap since you'd have to forge the resin and fibers into expensive molds specifically for that part, which requires a lot of energy as well.

The forged carbon you see in knives, and probably most watches, is just machined from sheets of premade resin and chopped carbon. For smaller runs this is far less expensive.

Also with watches, a lot of companies are selling watches they say are "carbon," which usually just means fiber reinforced nylon. The amount of carbon varies, and no one really publishes specs for this. So it's kind of confusing for people comparing Victorinox's version at $500 to Breitling's version at $3000.

 

[navman]

I have a watch in "forged carbon fiber" and it is kinda cool (Maratac LSA 300 CF). The material is allegedly the same stuff used to make panels for high end sports cars like Lambo's. I have also worked with a few pieces of forged CF for handle scales and it feels different than shred or "marbled" carbon fiber.

 

[navman]

Which reminds me...I need to make a sheath for one of them....

 

[jeepin]

I wear a Spec Ops Brand belt with a forged carbon fiber buckle.