Hand corrosion and the future

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Originally Posted by Ridly

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I was wondering if anybody knew if watches made in the 60-70's had stainless steel hands?

Does my modern Rolex have stainless steel hands? Is the same thing going to happen to mine even if I take care of it far into the future?
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Early hands were steel. In the ~70's Rolex started phasing in gold hands and marked the dials "o Swiss o" to denote those gold hands and "- Swiss -" to denote the steel hands.

Today all hands and markers are gold..