The Gold Filled Process

[Shawn Moulder]

If anyone is interested in knowing the gold filled process here is a great video to watch.

There is a small section that shows watch cases and watch bands being made.

 

[Rick Hufnagel]

Nice find sir!

 

[novicetimekeeper]

It is such a misnomer, how did the term ever get started? Here it was always called rolled gold which makes much more sense.

 

[John Arrowood]

It is my impression (probably very wrong) that the gold layer in rolled gold plate is thinner than gold filled and perhaps thicker than gold electroplate some microns thick that we see now.

 

[novicetimekeeper]

It is my impression (probably very wrong) that the gold layer in rolled gold plate is thinner than gold filled and perhaps thicker than gold electroplate some microns thick that we see now.

From what I have read, there are minimum gold content rules to using the term gold filled, though I don't know where that jurisdiction lies, gold filled is much more of an American expression. Rolled gold is a more descriptive term referring to the method of manufacture and has been in use since the inception of the system.

The accident in the video is how Sheffield plate came about, which is the same system for silver on copper.

 

[aucaj]

Book on Sheffield process:

https://ia801301.us.archive.org/15/items/sheffieldplateit00veit/sheffieldplateit00veit.pdf