Making The Ceramic Bezel

Today it is a standard feature in almost all rolex watches featuring a rotating bezel.

Making the ceramic bezel.

Rolex submariner 116610ln review 904l stainless steel black with ceramic bezel duration. This is two color pigments by the name of zro2 and al2o3. Amazon in 1986 iwc proved that ceramic could be used in luxury watchmaking with the release of the iwc da vinci ref. The ceramic bezel starts out with a powdered ceramic mixture.

3755 the first perpetual calendar chronograph that featured a ceramic case. An entire collection of ceramic cased planet oceans known as the deep black collection was released in 2016 and in 2017 omega released the big blue a dive. Maybe because of the expense in making it omega have not continued making an orange ceramic bezel insert and instead use an orange rubber segment as part of a larger bezel insert. Rolex is very secretive about most of the manufacturing of its watches but the company has shared some images of the ceramic bezel from scratch to finished product which gives us an insight into how the company makes it.

The gmt master ii was the first watch to receive the ceramic bezel followed by the submariner type watches and the deepsea sea dweller. The ceramic bezel replaced the aluminum insert which was previously used by rolex and had been for many decades. In recent years rolex has made a big switch on its sports watches from traditional stainless steel bezels to those made of ceramic. Omega seamaster with ceramic bezel image.

It was also the first time people had a choice of color either black or white ceramic.