Over the past eight decades, fluted bezels have been fashioned exclusively of 18-carat gold. If you spotted a Rolex watch with a fluted bezel, you knew it was made of 18k yellow gold, white gold, or Everose gold. A steel and white gold Rolex Datejust, for example, can be identified from a pure steel one by its fluted bezel. As opposed to this, Rolex watches’ platinum bezels have always been either domed, gem-set, or graduated with raised and polished numbers, as seen in the Yacht-Master‘s steel and platinum version. |