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The enamelling technique applied on metal objects, introduced about 2800 years B.C. and having its roots in acient Egypt, goes closely hand in hand with glass history being composed by substances richly found in nature and largely spread. However, it is commonly known that the Egyptians’ expertise was related only to the technique of coloured glass, best known as millefiori (multi-coloured glass), and vitreous paste which was used for decorating jewellery, by means of special putties that cleaved it on the metal surface; the turning-point came with the Romans who introduced the hot-work process, which will be carried on unchanged up to our days. Since decades Zannetti displays different enamelling tecniques for his dials. For example, in the new Regent the dials unfold the champlevé
enamelling.
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