OSMIUM
The last precious metal
It is actually surprising that crystalline osmium, the most valuable precious metal, did not find its way onto the broad market much earlier. However, in times of increasing global uncertainty, it is becoming more and more obvious to hedge in tangible assets. The hour of the osmium has come. First and foremost, osmium, like any other precious metal, serves to preserve value. However, thanks to its phenomenal reflective properties, it has now also become the ‘more beautiful diamond’ for the luxury sector of the jewellery industry. As a designer, osmium wins international competitions. Ulysse Nardin and Hublot bring watches with osmium onto the market and many spectacular pieces of jewellery are made by jewellers and goldsmiths.
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The metal of myths
Osmium is the rarest precious metal, the rarest metal and the rarest non-radioactive element of all. There are 30,000,000,000 tonnes of gold in the earth's crust compared to 300 kg of osmium that has already been mined. The reason why osmium has remained virtually unknown compared to the other seven precious metals is that osmium is toxic in its raw form and therefore could not be sold to private individuals and family offices until a few years ago. When exposed to air, raw osmium forms a sublimating oxide. A complex crystallisation process is used to produce crystalline osmium from toxic osmium sponge in a special laboratory in Switzerland. The process is comparable to the crystallisation of carbon into diamonds, which also change their physical properties considerably due to a different crystal lattice.
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The elative of rarity
Only part of the osmium is extracted from the socialised platinum in the mines. This small amount is converted into crystalline osmium. Raw osmium sponge is only purchased by the Osmium Institute from mines and refineries and not from private traders or speculators. After crystallisation, it is scanned by employees of the Osmium Institutes with a particularly high resolution of 25,000 measuring points on just one square millimetre of surface. And it is only through crystallisation and certification that it acquires its high value density and, above all, its absolute falsifiability.
All osmium pieces in the world are stored in the Osmium World Database. With the help of the osmium identification code, the high-resolution scans can be compared with your own piece or the piece you wish to purchase. Forgeries are therefore not possible.
