DESIGN NAME: Tube
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Bracelet
INSPIRATION: It first came up with an idea, what if a goldsmith's bracelet will be? It must be convenient for work, must be tough, simple but different. Or, should it be a bracelet or bangle? What if both? So designer broke a design of a traditional bracelet, and form it into an bangle like design, and used titanium to give a strength.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: minimalist design of a bracelet using titanium(black part) and gold. Titanium give this bracelet strength and the special color. Its structure is booth very clean and smooth to the wrist, hidden clasp inside the bracelet which is unseen to the surface.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The bracelet is very smooth and fluid by its links designed by us and tested. On one link there's the hidden clasp, before wearing it, connect the two part into one hole, and role into certain angle to fill in, when to take off, simply turn to the angle, pull the button and it will automatically come off.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in November 2021 and finished in May 2022 in Shenzhen.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: For the production of this design it uses Titanium 3D printing machine, metal casting, stone-setting, goldsmith, sandblaster. Using material such as Titanium, yellow gold, diamond or lab-grown diamond.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: width 188mm x depth 6.4mm x height 25mm
TAGS: bracelet, minimalism jewelry, minimalism bracelet, bangle, titanium jewelry
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: We didn't do such research.
CHALLENGE: Challenges of making this bracelet. First, Titanium is very hard to sand and to polish, secondly is titanium can't soldering under oxygen environments which we invented a tool to push away oxygen. Thirdly, to connect all the parts we must invent a kind of joint to fill in. Fourthly, change titanium to black color, this remains a secret process. Finally was making of the clasp, the clasp must be easy operated, safe enough not fallout during wearing them, and must not be visualize by other person easily.
ADDED DATE: 2022-05-23 03:39:30
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IMAGE CREDITS: Jingcheng Wu, 2022.
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