Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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The phone is marketed as being made from, not encased by, 24k gold which is too soft I would think. Here are some articles on gold based metallic glasses. Basically they have a much better strength to weight ratio than gold in standard solid form. The primary research was also done at cal tech. And as mentioned earlier Brikk, the design firm, has a connection with (albeit a weak one http://www.voices.com/jobs/posting/41928) Liquidmetal and Omega.

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/3467/1/SCHapl05.pdf

https://www.jim.or.jp/journal/e/pdf3/50/12/2795.pdf