Eli5: How durable is gold leaf

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I am interested in making custom watch and applying gold leaf, But I have no idea how durable it is???

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It depends what you are going to do with it. Gold is very ductile (can be made very thin) hence gold leaf so there are normally only a few atoms of gold in thickness, so can very easily be punctured since pure gold is a fairly soft metal.

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