Real gold.
Measured, matched, made to last.

Strip & prep

The watch comes apart first, and this is where most platers stop short: they plate it as it sits, movement still in the case, and only the outward faces ever see gold. Here the movement, dial and hands come out, the bezel, case-back and crown come off, the bracelet is taken apart, and every part is racked and plated on its own, inside and out.

Then a multi-stage clean: two manual cleaning procedures in two different purpose-made watch cleaning fluids, with the second run in an ultrasonic bath, followed by ultrasonic isopropyl, electro-clean, and electrolytic surface activation, so the deposit bonds to bare, active metal. Most plating failures start here; this is where the time goes.

Build the deposit

An ultra-hard layered barrier build: strike, barrier, then cobalt-hardened hard-gold on the wearing surfaces, finished to your chosen colour (18K 2N default; 14K and 24K tones on request, or a custom palladium White Gold), to a thickness we quote per piece. The process itself is validated quarterly by independent XRF at an accredited lab, so your piece is plated to parameters already proven.

Match & verify

For Rolex, colour is measured against modern genuine Rolex in CIELAB under standardized D65 illumination. Every piece, matched or not, clears a finish-quality gate before it moves on.

QC, reassemble & return

Every piece is inspected in full, part by part. Photographs are taken at each of the same angles as your intake photos, so you can compare the watch before and after directly, and the whole set comes to you. Additional photos or video on request.

Then reassembly, a final QC pass, and tracked return shipping.