How many case materials do you have in your collection?

[mjm700]

After picking up a Panerai Bronzo, i started counting the number of different case materials in my collection - 7

Represented:
Bronze - PAM968
Titanium - ROO
Plat - 5905P
WG - 5524G
RG - 5712R
SS - 5711
Ceramic - PAM1441

Missing - YG, carbon, plastic

I didn't plan this but there must be something in my mind that looks for different metals. Are there more than 10? Anyone have all 10 (or more)?

Just for Friday fun.

[JParm]

Great question! Here's my list:

SS - many!
RG - DD40
Bronze - Ball Engineer Bronze Star
Ceramic - Seamaster 300M

[Easy E]

SS - A pile of those
RG - A smaller pile
YG - DD40
WG - Sub
Bronze - BBBBB

Titanium - sold, probably never to return

[bullies]

Ss
rg
yg
wg

(would love a platinum DD40 with meteorite dial...one day)

[Fredrik]

You are missing tantalum in your list, Panerai made a couple of tantalum watches.

[zengineer]

All nine in SS.

I've owned titanium in the past. I have no desire for gold, platinum, bronze or plastic.

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[bobernet]

SS, YG, RG, WG, PT, one plastic G Shock. No Ti.

[chro.nic]

Just steel, titanium and plastic for me!!

.nic

[GB-man]

Just ti and steel. I’ve never kept a gold watch more than a month. They don’t stick for me. I truly see the appeal it’s just not for me in terms of comfort on wrist.

[mjm700]

Originally Posted by Fredrik

You are missing tantalum in your list, Panerai made a couple of tantalum watches.

Awesome. Never heard of it. I’m researching it now!


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[VictorGMT]

I lack 18k WG, hope to combine it with Meteorite, and will thus likely suffer for far to long...

Even the trusted sellers seldom offer an option!

[bobernet]

Originally Posted by VictorGMT

I lack 18k WG, hope to combine it with Meteorite, and will thus likely suffer for far to long...

Even the trusted sellers seldom offer an option!

It’s a great combination. This was my favorite watch for a few years. I sometimes miss it.





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[denmanproject]

904L
316L
Everbright
Resin

[subtona]

White metals

Stainless Steel: Rolex 14060 / 16570 / Patek 5711
White gold: Patek 5711G / 5940G
Titanium: Tudor FXD


Had the tantalum chrono bleu, that was nice.

[brandrea]

Only SS here

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by subtona

White metals

Stainless Steel: Rolex 14060 / 16570 / Patek 5711
White gold: Patek 5711G / 5940G
Titanium: Tudor FXD


Had the tantalum chrono bleu, that was nice.

Did you move the 321 along Gus?

[subtona]

Originally Posted by brandrea

Did you move the 321 along Gus?

Not yet … but likely.

Wore it for about a week and didn’t bond with it. I’m giving it some time, will revisit before I decide.

[ltmgeller]

6. Platinum, YG, WG, SS, Ceramic, and titanium.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by subtona

Not yet … but likely.



Wore it for about a week and didn’t bond with it. I’m giving it some time, will revisit before I decide.

Definitely not for everyone

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[NardinNut]

- SS
- SS and platinum
- SS and gold
- Titanium
- Carbon (carbonium)
- Ceramised titanium (BP special)
- and whatever all my G-Socks are made of.

[mjm700]

Looking at the Panerai website, they have show:

BMG-Tech (some metallic glass)
Composite (synthetic ceramic)
Plus the Tantalum (which sounds like a great case material from researching it; anyone post a good photo of it).

Cases by my count:

Patek 5 (Plat, RG, YG, WG, SS)
Rolex 6 (Plat, RG, YG, WG, SS, Ti)
AP 7 (Plat, RG YG, WG, SS, Ti, Ceramic)
Panerai 11 (Plat, RG, YG, WG, SS, Carbon, Ti, Ceramic, BMG, Composite, Tantalum)
Casio 4 (SS, Resin, Carbon, Ti)

Then RM ugh ~8 (RG, WG, sapphire, 2 Carbons, Ceramic, Ti, Grade 5 Ti (composite)????) + many combos of the above

That gets me to 15 unique case materials (perhaps a little off with RM). What am i missing or what is wrong with the above? Other manufacturers have other materials?

[train-time]

Definitely an excellent question. I have always been of the opinion that my collect should have some variety and not be a bunch of SS sport watches because they are popular and there was a time long ago that SS was all that was talked about on the Forum. Seemed the name should have been the SS Rolex Watch Forum, but that has changed with much more attention on PM pieces such as Day-Dates and PM Daytonas.

I am currently selling off half of my collection because they are either SS (4) or Sport (1) models and will most likely add a PM piece for some diversity. The only thing that I do not know at this time is whether is will be a PM sport model or more of a traditional model like a Day-Date. In any event, I believe variety is key and should also include brands other than Rolex.

[Kinnakeet]

5.