Patent 7375973 was granted and assigned to Vertu (collections) on May, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A casing for a handheld communication device includes a set of individual parts, each individual part being formed from the same metal. The set of individual parts have a purity of at least a hallmark purity level. The set of individual parts is severable from the casing without reducing the purity of the set of individual parts below the hallmark purity level.