It's a pink metal — a blend of metals including copper — that has a flushed, sunset hue and a highly polished surface.

A carefully set table with the silver and candles reflected in its polished surface helps to create an appetite for dinner.

The firm have also had to invest in three 350,000 robots which play a crucial role in sanding down the finished arches and then adding a polished surface.

The smooth, polished surface suggests that this figurine was handled by hundreds of people.

The recording lathe cut an audio-signal-modulated spiral groove into the polished surface of a thick round slab of wax-like material rotating on a turntable.