Plating is the heart of the shop, but not the whole of it. Colour work, protective topcoats, wearability upgrades, aesthetic mods, and lab diagnostics, one bench, one standard. Plating is priced in the estimator; add-ons are quoted on review.
Every plating job here starts with a teardown: movement, dial and hands out, bezel, case-back and crown off, the bracelet taken apart, each part plated on its own, inside and out. Most shops plate the watch assembled with the movement still in it, which covers the visible faces and little else. Why that matters →
Yellow gold plating and tone matching over bare steel, or over the factory finish on top-tier pieces only (VSF, ARF, APS, RGF, QF, and similar). Rolex tones set against modern genuine Rolex by spectrophotometric CIELAB measurement under D65.
A custom palladium white finish, tuned creamy to read like Rolex white gold rather than the cold blue-white of straight rhodium. Palladium also runs hard, around 400 Knoop.
Centre links, bezels, crowns, and small parts, masked and plated individually for a clean factory-style split.
On hold due to supply-chain issues. Ask in your intake and we’ll notify you when it’s back.
Strictly speaking, white gold cannot be plated: it is an alloy cast in a foundry, not a bath you dip into. Rolex casts its own; a plating shop has no foundry, so any shop offering to “plate white gold” is really depositing rhodium, palladium, or platinum, and most just do not say which. Our house white finish is a custom palladium, tuned creamy the way Rolex white gold reads, over a hard underlayer.
The problem with most ceramic coatings: they leave a glassy, lacquered shine that real gold simply doesn’t have. That’s why our house topcoat is satin.
A high-solids nano-glass ceramic layer over the gold. No gloss agents, no silicone oils, just 8H-hardness glass-ceramic particles tuned satin so the finish reads as metal, not clear-coat. Full protection, true gold feel, the coat disappears into the watch. Water beads and rolls straight off, so fingerprints and smudges never get a chance to sit. It is the hardest of the three and the closest to a genuine gold look and feel.
A 9H SiO2 ceramic formula that fills the microscopic pits, pores, and valleys in the surface, leveling it to maximum depth and shine. For pieces meant to be noticed. Know that gloss reads as coating, not natural gold. Rated for 2+ years of protection in daily wear, and its water-fearing surface shrugs off handling oils and prints just as readily.
A low-build polymer film, invisible on the wrist but laid thicker than ceramic and longer-wearing: flexible enough to move with the metal, resistant to yellowing, peeling and cracking, while guarding against tarnish and daily contamination.
We pressure-inject a silicone grease deep into the bracelet. The rattle and the sharpness go; the bracelet drapes like silk instead of clattering, and the watch finally feels as expensive as it looks.
Quiets rotor noise so the watch doesn’t announce itself when your wrist moves.
Gasket inspection, replacement, and lubrication, then pressure testing, with video proof of your watch passing, included.
Client-supplied parts are inspected before work and carry no warranty on the parts themselves; any defect is reported before assembly.
The same instruments that keep our plating exact, pointed at your watch. See the Lab.
Bench and lab work run in-house or through an accredited mail-in materials lab, depending on the test.
Rate, amplitude, and beat error, measured in all 6 positions on the bench.
Pressure tested, with a depth-rating report for your piece.
Full elemental composition by XRF: steel grade and alloy makeup, plus any precious-metal content, on cases and bracelets, read at an accredited lab.
Coating and plating thickness by XRF, layer by layer, with the deposit’s composition and purity confirmed.
Pick your add-ons in the intake and we’ll quote the full scope on review, before any work begins.