Making The Ceramic Bezel

In recent years rolex has made a big switch on its sports watches from traditional stainless steel bezels to those made of ceramic.

Making the ceramic bezel.

Today it is a standard feature in almost all rolex watches featuring a rotating bezel. 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. Binding agents are then added and it is then. The ceramic bezel starts out with a powdered ceramic mixture.

Omega seamaster with ceramic bezel image. 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. Many people were shocked by the switch and there are plenty of proponents for both types of bezels. The ceramic bezel replaced the aluminum insert which was previously used by rolex and had been for many decades.

Amazon in 1986 iwc proved that ceramic could be used in luxury watchmaking with the release of the iwc da vinci ref. 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 submariner 116610ln review 904l stainless steel black with ceramic bezel duration. 3755 the first perpetual calendar chronograph that featured a ceramic case.

This is two color pigments by the name of zro2 and al2o3.