Ceramic Submariner Lume

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

Ceramic submariner lume.

The gmt master ii was the first watch to receive the ceramic bezel followed by the submariner type watches and the deepsea sea dweller. Submariner ceramic non date 114060 i love this watch and my explorer 2 black new model. The first rolex submariner to be furnished with a ceramic bezel was the submariner ref. Pearl pip for bezel insert rolex seadweller 4000 ceramic 116600 blue lume usa.

Green cerachrom ceramic platinum numerals uni directional band. 116619lb which made its debut in 2008. Stainless steel bracelet glidelock clasp. Finally all current submariner date models run on caliber 3135 while the no date submariner is powered by caliber 3130 both with a power reserve rating of 48 hours.

There have been well over a dozen distinct references of the submariner with up to a few hundred total variants depending on how thinly you want to start sub dividing individual references based on dial text lume plots and more. Pearl pip for bezel insert rolex submariner ceramic 116619 116619lb blue lume usa. Over the last 15 years rolex has been at the forefront of ceramic technology creating some of the most beautiful colored bezel inserts for watches such as the white gold and blue bezel submariner from 2008 the green dial and green bezel submariner known as the hulk from 2010 and of course the world s first two color ceramic bezels blue. The production process of the bezel include engraved numerals and lume.

Some dive watches have lume in the entire bezel but the submariner is more traditional with a single lume point pip at 12 o clock. You will only find these bezel inserts from l c b i because they are custom manufactured for l c b i. The black ceramic bezel is shinier than aluminum but is much more durable and very scratch resistant. Despite all of that though the submariner is an often misunderstood watch.

Date at 3 00 blue chromalight hands markers lume bezel. Many people were shocked by the switch and there are plenty of proponents for both types of bezels.