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Old 25 March 2012, 06:04 AM   #1
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Is there parachrome in 16610 ?

Hi, guys !

As we know, there is a parachrome in the latest random 14060M..

( more information - http://www.minus4plus6.com/paracromblu16710.htm#14060M )

The question is - Was there a parachrome in the latest 16610's ?
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Old 25 March 2012, 09:09 AM   #2
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Without opening the case, there's no way to be 100%.
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Old 25 March 2012, 09:20 AM   #3
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Very true!

Although, being now 2 years since production has ceased on this model, I'd venture a guess at no it would not. Possible, but doubtful I'd think!
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Old 25 March 2012, 09:23 AM   #4
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Old 25 March 2012, 11:44 AM   #5
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Very true!

Although, being now 2 years since production has ceased on this model, I'd venture a guess at no it would not. Possible, but doubtful I'd think!
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Some of the more recent 14060m's have started showing up with the Parchrom Bleu Hairsprings. But it's nothing of much consequence one way or the other really.

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Rolex is very good at marketing while in the Rolex video it states the Parachrom is 10 time more shockproof, but what they dont state is to what.Most cetainly not the Nivarox ones that they and most of the watch industry have used for the past 40 odd years.And with magnetic test where they hold a powerful magnet over a open case on a watch.What this means in reality if you dont wear your watch dial down with the case back off with a powerful magnet near any hairspring.Then I would doubt in the real world that it would make little or no difference whatever the name of hairspring in the case Parachrom is just the name for the metal alloy used.While I will applaud Rolex for now making there own escapement parts for the first time its just a hairspring nothing more

Now Nivarox thats the name of the alloy much like Rolex calls there Parachrom.Today it is used mainly in the watch/clock industry, but also in other micro-machine industries and in certain types of medical equipment and high presicion surgical instruments. There are several variations of the Nivarox alloy depending upon the intended application. These alloys are stainless steel alloys with high concentrations of Cobalt (42-48%), Nickel (15-25%) and Chromium (16-22%). There are also small amounts of titanium and beryllium. Hairsprings made of this alloy are highly wear-resistant,and they are practically non-magnetic in normal wearing,and non-rusting and possess a low coefficient of thermal expansion.

Nivarox 1 through 5 is a series of grades of hairsprings with number 1 being the best quality. The most commonly encountered Nivarox hairsprings in the watch industry are grades 1 to 3. The alloy is unaffected by heat and normal every day ordinary magnetic fields. There is however, also the Anachron hairspring which is said to be of even higher quality than the Nivarox No 1 grade.Who knows perhaps that the grade that Rolex used over the past 40 odd years.Although magnetism mainly effects the hairsprings other parts of a watch can get magnetised too,but its a very very simple process to de-magnetise any magnetised watch today.


Fact specs from Nivarox Far and other research .
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