Hey guys it's Lewis with Gold Plating Services again I'm here with my boss Amy.
Hey guys. We are gold plating an Apple watch today. Amy designed the racks for these
she's seen and watched a lot of Apple watch Apple watches be gold plated
but she's never done it herself. I built the kits from start to finish,
helped with the design the process but never actually plated an apple watch in the last couple years since we started doing them.
Today they're gonna teach me how to do
it hands-on. It's going to be fun.You're gonna walk me through this so I don't
screw this up right? Right. Alright okay I know from here I'm gonna go into my
electro clean. Correct. And I know if I remember right electro clean and I'm
going to stay in there a little bit longer. About a minute it seven a half volts
give or take yeah. That's why we got Rob here he checks it keeps the voltage because
I do know if we screw up the voltage that can affect the part. Yeah and this stainless
steel and these Apple watches is one of the most difficult stainless I've ever
had to develop. When we were developing the process of plating these we did
literally probably 1500 watches and it took us the first 20 or 50 to figure it
out. I do remember the casualties. Yeah and Amy developed this rack this one's a little bit broken but they
were really hard to figure out how to rack it we ended up putting it in the
sides of where the buckle goes or the the band slides in so it
touches there and then we wrap a wire around the digital crown and we have a
spring that touches the side of the button. Let's give it another 5-10
seconds if you don't electro clean long enough the whole rest of the process
fails. So if I over electro clean will it ruin the watch? No you can't overdo electro clean.
I mean if you put it in and went to lunch it probably would. Okay go ahead and
rinse it. Tons and tons of bubbles. So rinsing here pretty good
and then rinse in this next one. I'm guessing that just extra cleaning. Yeah
we got to get all the electro cleaner off. Okay now I'm gonna turn the voltage
down a little bit. So the reason this doesn't break your Apple watch? It
doesn't break the Apple watch because the Apple watches are actually what they
call water resistant up to ten feet deep. They're not they don't claim it's
waterproof, it's probably a good idea, but out of the 1,500 or 2,000 watches I've
done we've only had about ten casualties. I know it don't do it very long. About ten seconds there rinse
Look at the gold. Okay so this has to be this must be TriVal. Hurry and rinse it
Yeah this is TriVal. This is a gold strike it attacks the surface with an acid and
simultaneously deposits a little bit of gold. If you look it's tinted gold now.
And now we're going to go ahead and drop it into our 24k bright gold solution
which we'll put on the thick layer that will make it last the gold plating will
actually outlive the device. Of the 1500 or so I've done we literally plated
Apple watches the day the series one launched. We had partnered with a guy
who knew they were coming ahead of time knew what their specs were and we were
all ready the day that it launched. We plated apple watches and he started
selling them. Make sure and keep it under the solution. So real quick so we
did TriVal and I know it's stainless steel why didn't you do wood's? Okay wood's nickel
she's asking about wood's nickel strike which is for stainless steel you have
to strike it. Rather you do a nickel strike or a gold strike it makes
it so that the the gold will adhere if you don't do a strike it will not adhere
but the reason we use a gold strike is because it's going to go on a person's
wrist and it's going to be in contact with their skin frequently and many
people are very allergic to nickel where this is actually a proprietary solution
that only we sell and it really is the best option for jewelry or medical
equipment. Pull it out and show them Yeah. Rinse it off. It's already gold-plated so
you see it's already gold, but there's probably only about so I guess probably
5 to 10 micro inches at this point. Let's turn around and show them. Yeah check it out. So I got my
Apple watch but it's this sport. What is that aluminum? Yeah it's aluminum.
Aluminum oxide which I would love to have it plated but aluminum you cannot plate
it on. Yeah you can't play those. These ones are about twice as much money, but
yeah look at that I mean it looks beautiful. Oh they're like no scratches.
No there's no it's just this fine. On that a gold is kind of a soft metal
do you have to worry about this scratching?
Yeah but the stainless steel would scratch too. It's metal they all scratch.
but yeah so this is again this is our Jewel Master Pro HD it's really easy to
use. As you see we literally can walk anyone through plating this stuff. We got
Electro Cleaner, TriVal acid gold strike, and 24k bright gold solution. One
thing I wanted to mention is these bars here actually hang over the solution
like this and if you I'm gonna plate this watch for another ten minutes
because this is actually for a customer. And I'll just hang it on that bar for
ten minutes and it'll then have about two microns of gold which is really
really thick. Okay guys check out our website for the Jewel Master Pro, ask
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watching. Thanks guys.