Making The Ceramic Bezel

The ceramic bezel starts out with a powdered ceramic mixture.

Making the ceramic bezel.

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. 3755 the first perpetual calendar chronograph that featured a ceramic case. In recent years rolex has made a big switch on its sports watches from traditional stainless steel bezels to those made of ceramic. 2005 saw the release of the first ceramic cerachrom bezel insert from rolex introduced in the gmt master ii ref 116718.

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

The gmt master ii was the first watch to receive the ceramic bezel followed by the submariner type watches and the deepsea sea dweller. 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. It was also the first time people had a choice of color either black or white ceramic. 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.

The ceramic bezel replaced the aluminum insert which was previously used by rolex and had been for many decades.