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Old 1 May 2009, 02:29 PM   #1
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Hour Marker Materials

Is there any kind of rule for what material the hour markers are made out of for each watch? I found a little info here and there about what various markers were made out of for various watches, but no concise guide. Does it go by model (TOG, YM, etc), by case material, by bezel material, or just completely arbitrary?
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I think that the rule is that they're made of gold...

Do you have information to the contrary.......
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I think that the rule is that they're made of gold...

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No information to the otherwise. I just assumed that they made them from different materials depending on the material of the watch. Didn't know they were all gold.
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No information to the otherwise. I just assumed that they made them from different materials depending on the material of the watch. Didn't know they were all gold.

Oh...your post made it sound like you had read something else..

Generally speaking, if it is on the Dial of a Rolex and metal, it is either yellow or white gold (since the ~80's) but it is painted on some models such as the white dial Explorer II (recent models, early models were not painted).

The hands are gold too.
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