Mixed Fortune: Bimetal Watches Invigorate Excitement
The full platinum or gold watch may be too weighty for all tastes. Is bi metal the way to go then" We make the case for and against
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While our main section looks at platinum, and some related metals, and the coincidental release of the Rolex Day-Date in platinum, with fluted bezel in the same, makes the metal somewhat on-trend, the real story may be the rarely discussed Rolesium (a combination of platinum and steel). This is why we are following up directly on our main section with this accompanying section on half precious metal watches. So, to be clear, we are not really going with half-gold here, but half precious metal and half steel ? although Audemars Piguet and Hublot in particular mix all sorts of materials, and we will get into that, briefly. We mainly want to look into the potential of platinum and steel watches, which means we will use the term bicolour or two-tone sparingly.
Funnily enough, we have not covered bimetal watches as a category of watches in any depth. That is indeed a strange omission considering we have had more than 20 years to get to them! Well, this issue corrects that.
Watches that combine different metals have been around for some time, and they have elicited strong reactions from collectors. They have even been called naf, especially for those who feel these watches bring to mind the 1980s. Rightly or wrongly, they also evoke nouv...
The post Mixed Fortune: Bimetal Watches Invigorate Excitement appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Rolex
While our main section looks at platinum, and some related metals, and the coincidental release of the Rolex Day-Date in platinum, with fluted bezel in the same, makes the metal somewhat on-trend, the real story may be the rarely discussed Rolesium (a combination of platinum and steel). This is why we are following up directly on our main section with this accompanying section on half precious metal watches. So, to be clear, we are not really going with half-gold here, but half precious metal and half steel ? although Audemars Piguet and Hublot in particular mix all sorts of materials, and we will get into that, briefly. We mainly want to look into the potential of platinum and steel watches, which means we will use the term bicolour or two-tone sparingly.
Funnily enough, we have not covered bimetal watches as a category of watches in any depth. That is indeed a strange omission considering we have had more than 20 years to get to them! Well, this issue corrects that.
Watches that combine different metals have been around for some time, and they have elicited strong reactions from collectors. They have even been called naf, especially for those who feel these watches bring to mind the 1980s. Rightly or wrongly, they also evoke nouv...
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