Ceramic Bezel Watch

Watch brand Rado is often credited as the first to use ceramic in their watches with the Diastar (1962), but it was actually Omega Seamaster Cermet aka The Black Tulip that was the first ceramic watch (1981). The watch was too expensive to produce and did not see mass production. Over the next two decades, ceramic watches would be released by IWC and Chanel, finally going mainstream when Rolex launched the Cerachrom in 2005.

The use of ceramic has become more popular over the past decade, and Rolex being Rolex, they did not just settle for any ceramic. They patented their own ceramic material called the Cerachrom (“chrom” being the Greek word for color). The tough watch component is scratch-proof and virtually resistant to fading.