The main material of stainless steel accessories are stainless steel, wood, rubber and leather, and copper, alloys, and a few specil materials (But the mainstream still is stainless steel and rubber.)
The cost of ordinary stainless steel is decided by variety and thickness. For example, the stainless steel were divided into 202L, 304L, 316L and the other types.( Of course, it still have rolled steel of 202L, it is one kind of material which is between iron and steel, it is popularly named as rustless metal. It would to be corroded with a little rust formation, when it is in the dankish environment.) At present, the stainless steel accessories mostly are 304L which be made at the domestic, and with some 316L. There is very little difference between with 316L and polishing 304L.But the professional will known the difference. And the price of 304L will be higher than 316L. Besides the type difference, it still has the difference with thickness. The armor plate thickness were divided into 2.0mm、2.5mm、3.0mm、3.5mm、4.0mm、4.5mm、5.0mm、5.5mm and so on. And as well as more than 6mm. But it need not to use such thick to make the stainless steel accessories. in (the) general, the price of stainless steel materials will be increased according the thickness increased.
At present, there is still one kind of materials called tungsten steel to be made as accouterment . This materials is not with armor plate as the raw materials. It is casted in a mold to be fittings by powdery tungsten steel directly, and then be assembly. So tungsten steel watches are mostly according the quantity the tungsten steel powder use. In addition,because of the friability of the tungsten steel, the cost of the tungsten watch also need to think of the technical difficulty of the tungsten steel. The tungsten steel accessories after cast, need to be cutting, polishing, carving and so on, some designed process which is more exquisite will often to work tungsten steel dilapidation, the materials need to be used a good few.
The leather, which is main as the materials of bracelet. Its level is according the coriaceous quality, the proportion of wasting materials is not too much. The sort of coriaceous is a little miscellaneous. Mostly is crocodile, cowhide, pigskin and so on. We will not talk about this too much at here. If you you feel in any interesting, you can refer to some articles which are about the leather materials.
The requests of wood and rubber are not too high. It has not the differentiation at both of the level and the type.
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