Hey Gang, can I get your visual on the dial and hands and bezel please. Hoping to bring this baby home over weekend.

bezel is matte. Is it a natural occurrence? Or was it acetone stripped?

mucho gracias.

 

Might just be the pics. Doesn’t look matte to me. What year is it?

 

Nice chamfers. Guess year 1999 to 2007 as no lug holes and no tritium. Bezel would be aluminum and maybe faded with time.

 

Looks good to me, the bezel fade is weird so soon but I guess it can happen.

would like to see pics of wrist of the lugs etc as well as movement

 

For what it’s worth my 2001 has lug holes.

 

Lug holes from 2004 onwards.
Swiss made dial from 2001 onwards. before there were transitional swiss only dials.

 

I think you mean “no lug holes” from 2004 onwards, correct?

 

Of course no lug holes

 

I believe so but there is an overlap as you could find watches with lug holes in stored after 2004.

 

But not after F serial.

 

I’m requesting more photos...thank you gents.
I have yet to see a faded bezel like this for a relatively new model.
The case and bracelet looks far newer than its faded bezel, which looks cool as hell, but I’m curious if it’s original, or period correct.

 

looks good to me, similar to mine (2008)

 

can you share a photo of your bezel?

 

It’s a F serial, puts it in 2004-2005.
there’s a “T” after “16600”

I learned something new:
“Every Rolex professional watch, not just the Sea Dweller, has a T on the case if it was once a lug through-hole model that was changed to a blind-hole case.

The T stands for Trou Borgne, french for blind hole - French is Rolex native language.

Generally you do not see the T on paperwork.”

 

i can snap some pics after work.

 

Not sure about your bezel, perhaps a corrosive cleaning agent?