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The Aston Martin DBR9, the racing version of the DB9, features an aluminum frame and engine with carbon fiber body panels for tough, lightweight construction (Breitling Chronomat B01 Replica)

However, aluminum has problems that make it unsuitable for use in a watch case. The first is that aluminum has a fatigue life. Aluminum slowly loses mass over the course of its life as molecules turn into gas. Over time, aluminum weakens. In the automotive industry, engineers get around this by over-engineering the strength of components, but you then lose the critical weight advantage of aluminum. Further, a car's frame is suspended from direct impact with the road using shock absorbers, while in a watch, daily direct impact can occur. Professional racing bicycles are only used for one or two seasons at the most, then discarded before fatigue life becomes a factor, but a watch is meant to endure indefinitely. A watch is meant to be passed down from one generation to the next.

As he extended his research, Mille found more shortcomings to aluminum. Although aluminum is strong, its surface is soft. Surface-hardening it using anodizing (a heat treatment) creates only a hard outer skin that can still scratch during hard impact. There was no way normal aluminum would satisfy Mille's needs. It was through his contacts in the aerospace industry that Mille had sourced the special high-density carbon fiber used in Airbus brake discs that he eventually used for the carbon baseplates in his movements, and it was through these same contacts that he first heard of ALUSIC, a material used for space technology. ALUSIC was created in Les Bronzes d'Industrie (LBI) in Amneville, France. Luc Lajoye, co-owner and general manager of LBI, completed his metallurgical studies at the Genie Physique et Mecanique des Materiaux in Grenoble. It was there during his doctoral studies that the ideas leading to the invention of ALUSIC were developed. "ALUSIC is a mixture of aluminum and silicium, of metal and mineral, that results in an extremely lightweight material that is highly shock-resistant, very hard and indefinitely stable," Mille explains.

ALUSIC had one drawback: because of the complex manufacturing process involved, it was inordinately expensive. Yet there was simply no other option for Mille. He admits: "Each time I reach a point where I can choose from different paths, I will always go with the best in terms of performance regardless of the expense.Zenith Replica This is my philosophy of never compromising." The ALUSIC needed to create the Breitling Chronomat B01 Replica's watch case would cost many times more than platinum. Indeed, Mille's ALUSIC body ended up becoming the world's most expensive watch case to fabricate. The main challenge is to fuse the seemingly incompatible elements of metal and mineral. ALUSIC has to be centrifugally cast to ensure that aluminum and silicium bond on a molecular level.

Lajoye explains: "The greatest problem working with these kinds of alloys is the inherent mix of the metal, which by its very nature is bound to contain impurities. These impurities are detrimental to the structure. During centrifugation, however, the unwanted material remains at the core of the distribution process and the perfect matrix is thrown to the outside area. Particles added to the metal mixture are also evenly spaced out in this way." Essentially, ALUSIC is spun inside a high-speed centrifuge resulting in a massive cylinder. The inner part of the cylinder remains pure aircraft-grade aluminum while only the outer layer of the cylinder is ALUSIC. This outer layer is carefully cut out and, from it, the Breitling Chronomat B01 Replica case is crafted.