:20:Issuer referenceBRR-ID1-06
:23B:FormID-1 · Metal
:12:SeriesSix finishes
:79: Narrative

Everything else here is
printed. The card is made.

Bearer issues one object in six finishes. No app to be the real product, no tiers of the same plastic in different colours. A card is milled from a billet, brushed, engine-turned and tipped — and the whole of this page is the paperwork that follows it.

Request the specimen sheet

Six faces turning. Drag it, or use the arrow keys.

:61: Facing 01 Graphite Off the page — 6 faces on one drum

The object, to the tenth of a millimetre

:32A: Specification
85.60 mm 53.98 mm R 3.18 0.76 Edge ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 · plan and edge, drawn at 4 px/mm
FormatISO/IEC 7810 ID-1
Width85.60 mm
Height53.98 mm
Thickness0.76 mm
CornerR 3.18 mm
SubstrateSolid metal core
NumberingTipped, not printed

The card on the drum is drawn at the same ratio, and its edge is 0.76 mm at that scale — which is why the metal you can see on the turn is three pixels and not a rounder number.

Six finishes

:57D: Series
FinishMetal SurfaceMass

Every face on the drum is drawn where you are reading it — the engine-turning under each one is a rose curve plotted at load, with different parameters per card, so no two patterns repeat. Choose a row and the drum turns to it.

Three operations

:70: Manufacture
Op 01

Milled from a billet

The body is cut from one piece, not laminated from layers. It is the operation that decides the sound the card makes when you set it down.

Op 02

Turned on a rose engine

The guilloché is cut by a machine following a rosette, the same way a banknote plate is. Change the rosette and the pattern changes with it.

Op 03

Tipped, not printed

The number is pressed into the metal and the raised face is foiled. Printing it would be one operation cheaper and you would feel the difference with a thumb.

:59: Beneficiary

Ask for the specimen sheet and we will send one of each.

issue@bearer.example
Issued fromSingapore
SeriesSix, unnumbered
Lead timeNine working days