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Hanhart presents a world first in watchmaking

February 2012


Hanhart is the only watch brand in the world to use a certain kind of nickel-free stainless steel for its wrist chronograph cases. This steel has been treated using a special finishing process, making it extremely hard and therefore improving its scratch resistance by more than 10,000%. The use of this finishing process is patented for the watch and jewellery making industry under the brand name HDSPro®.

Hanhart is an undisputed specialist in producing robust and hard-wearing instrument watches for use in the air, on the land and on the sea. the Swiss-German watch brand has opted to use HDSPro® steel for the cases of its mechanical chronographs in the future, making it the first manufacturer in the watch industry across the world to do so. This steel offers the perfect combination of hardness, resistance to corrosion and nickel-free composition.

An innovative finishing process gives the watch case a surface structure that is at least three times tougher than before. Compared to the varieties of stainless steel previously used, this results in a more than 100-fold, and thus more than 10,000%, improvement in scratch resistance.

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