Several years ago, Panerai published Luminor Submersible 1950 PAM 382, which raised a bronze storm in watch industry. The story between XF and bronze started from Panerai’s PAM 382. Afterwards, XF unveiled PAM 507, PAM 671, Zenith Type 20 Pilot Extra Special, Tudor Black Bay Bronzo, these are all art work of XF that are made of bronze material. So, we can see that XF factory continuously researched bronze and applied this material in their watch-making process, today, they released this IWC Pilot Spitfire bronze watch, it is the first IWC watch that is made of bronze.Actually, it is not hard to make a bronze case, but the difficulty is that bronze case should be oxidized to our expected result at the speed we want, XF has always been researching this, now the oxidized result on this IWC Pilot Spitfire has achieved a perfect condition, which is closest to genuine, compared with the bronze case from small factories, you will find that their oxidized color is uneven and there is even rusty spot.
When we talking about the world-famous watch brand Omega, I think most of watch fans may be familiar with the series of Planer Ocean very much. Its leading technology of movement, cool color collocation, and its dynamic appearance, all these classic characteristic may be an appreciated view in wrist. Today I felt so exciting to share one outstanding replica of this series to you guys. It has deduced all classic and unique factors which were the same as the genuine, but the only difference between two of them was the price. You may be so surprised to own such excellent replica just need to cost little money. So now let’s know something about it briefly.This replica Omega Planet Ocean has ultra big dial, its diameter was 45.5mm. Its case was made of solid stainless steel 316. Only just this big size and tough material, have already made us feel the its sport style and it was more masculine in deed. There are three big steel Arabic numerals was embossed in the black dial steadily in the place of 6:00,9:00,12:00. The date display window was set at 3:00 position. And the other bar markers were surround its big steel hands . Besides, its hands and scales, markers has been gone through the process of super luminous coating. it was so considerate to help diver read diving time easily. You can see polished steel with bright white in day, but you still can see it shinning with blue color when you stay in darkness. But in order to help divers read their diving time in any situation. Minute hand and bezel scales will show green color. This function can help divers distinguish diving time and normal time quickly. In addition, diving was a dangerous sport actually. So it was very necessary to have this function because any detail was connected with their life.
While bidirectional rotating bezels may be quicker for wearers to turn to the appropriate spot, as a dive bezel it’s not the best option. If the bezel gets accidentally knocked, this could cause divers to miscalculate how long they have been underwater. Therefore, a unidirectional bezel is more prudent because accidental knocks to the bezel can only result in overestimating immersion time – it’s far preferable to start ascending to the surface earlier or spend longer than necessary at a decompression stop.Rolex began equipping the Submariner with unidirectional bezels starting with the Submariner Date ref. 16800, which was introduced around 1979. The no-date Submariner model received a unidirectional bezel with the introduction of the Submariner ref. 14060 in 1990.Like the previous generation, the new unidirectional bezels included aluminum bezel inserts. In 1983, Rolex introduced the first two-tone Submariner model in the form of the Submariner Date ref. 16803, which sported a yellow gold knurled bezel with a black or blue aluminum insert. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Submariner in 2003, Rolex introduced the stainless steel Submariner Date ref. 16610LV with a green bezel insert.In 2008, Rolex introduced the first Submariner models equipped with unidirectional bezels featuring Cerachrom inserts. Cerachrom is Rolex’s proprietary ceramic alloy that is not only resistant to scratching but also to fading. The 60-minute graduations are cut into the bezel and then the ceramic bezel insert is fully coated with either yellow gold (for yellow gold and two-tone models) or platinum (for white gold or steel models). The gold/platinum is then polished away from the ceramic surface until only the recessed numerals and markings are left with the metal filling.By 2012, Rolex had rolled out the Cerachrom bezels across all Submariner models and color options include black, blue, and green. A quick way to know the color of the bezel is to look at the letters in the reference number: LB (blue bezel), LN (black bezel), and LV (green bezel).
