Montblanc has released yet another item inorder to commemorate its one hundredth birthday. This time it is the Montblanc Sport Tantalum Diver’s Automatic watch.
The watch is crafted out of the rare metal, tantalum. Tantalum is known as a highly corrosion-resistant metal and is therefore used for surgical instruments and in other sterile situations. Tantalum is a gray metal which is exceptionaly hard and also ductile and therefore often used for elecrical wiring.
The watch features a helium escape valve (a like to those on Omega Seamaster watches). The watch is a limited edition of 100 pieces and features the Montblanc cut diamond in the crown. The depth rating is 1906 meteres which also happens to be the year in which Montblanc was founded.
From TimeZone.
Ductile and hard are mutually exclusive metallurgical terms. It really is like saying hard and soft at the same time. Can’t happen. Tantalum is not hard (I have a piece sitting in front of me, and can scratch it with a piece of soft steel. You’re right about it being corrosion resistant, but not much more than titanium, especially in any environment your hand can survive. So lets hope you find plenty of not very smart rich people to sell this crap to.
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The first comment is not entirely correct. Ductile and hard are not necessarily mutually exclusive terms. If you look up the essential information about Tantalum on webelements.com among the physical properties listed for this element are that it is a “a greyish silver, heavy, and very hard metal.” It goes on to say that in its pure form it is ductile, which is not synonymous with soft. It is malleable and more specifically ductility means it is “easily stretched without breaking or lowering in material strength” (dictionary.com).