Making a White Gold Cuban Chain – This Process is Insane!

Main steps to making the white gold chain (see below):

00:00 Weighing the 24K gold and alloy to make white gold chain.
00:09 Melting the gold in the crucible to make the 14K bar.
00:43 Scanning bar with Niton XL2 XRF Analyzer to show the metallic elements in the mix.
00:49 Stretching the gold bar through rolling mills, presses, and drawplate machine to form the correct gauge wire.
01:52 Rolling the gold wire onto a copper rod using a drill to form a coil.
02:30 Cutting the white gold coil to form the individual links.
02:55 Joining and soldering the links together to make the raw chain.
03:50 Twisting chain to align links using an industrial twisting machine before they're filed down.
04:49 Gluing the chain to a board with Shellac glue and filing the links down to give it a flat look.
06:25 Affixing and welding the clasp to the chain and polishing.
07:15 Modeling the final white gold Cuban chain.

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