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All guys with ARF submariner v3, do you see color fade on your bezel?

Esaelias

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since the first day my black bezel hasn't been fully black its like a shiny black but not pure black
 

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Sounds like the black of a ceramic bezel to me.

But of course, :ttiwwop:
 

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Yep, "shiny black", as you say. That looks like a black ceramic bezel under harsh light. It's highly reflective gloss surface, so it only looks black when it's reflecting something dark - otherwise it's going to look various shades of grey.

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Esaelias

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Yep, "shiny black", as you say. That looks like a black ceramic bezel under harsh light. It's highly reflective gloss surface, so it only looks black when it's reflecting something dark - otherwise it's going to look various shades of grey.

thank you very much
 

Esaelias

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does the cermic on this model v3 arf fade?
 

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No, the material colour is really, really unlikely to fade (given the composition of the material, I'm not sure it's even possible for the black to fade).

What you might have heard people complaining about is the silver coating of the markers on the insert fading. There have been reports of that. But if it happens, it's easily fixed by using a silver marker pen to re-colour the markers (the "Molotow mod" as it's know, after the brand of marker pen people use).
 
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