Titanium. The real color of the year? Titanium. Here’s how geology created a trend. Rose quartz from Brazil. Géry Parent / Flickr Quartz is one of the planet’s most abundant minerals.

but rather as oxides like titanium dioxide (TiO 2), and as such is widely distributed around the world. Rutilated quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil. The needle-like crystals are the rutile.

The chronograph’s 44 mm case houses a color-coded display ... In addition to all the gray quartz parts, the newcomer is equipped with a satin-finished titanium crown that has been micro-blasted ...

or rose quartz (titanium, iron, and manganese). Inclusions and trapped gasses can turn quartz translucent (milky quartz) and natural irradiation can even act on stray aluminum in the crystal ...