Patent ID: 8534710

Claim:
A security element for securing valuable articles, having an optically variable layer that conveys different color impressions at different viewing angles, and a color-constant layer, the optically variable layer and the color-constant layer being stacked in a covering region, while at most one of the optically variable layer and the color-constant layer is present outside the covering region, the color impression of the stacked layers in the covering region and the color impression of the one layer outside the covering region being matched with each other when viewed at a predetermined viewing angle, and the color-constant layer comprising an ink layer and a metal layer arranged below the ink layer; wherein the ink layer of the color-constant layer is arranged in the covering region over the optically variable layer, the color impression of the optically variable layer in the region not covered by the ink layer being matched with the color impression of the ink layer in the covering region when viewed at a predetermined viewing angle, and the metal layer of the color-constant layer being arranged between the ink layer and the optically variable layer.