Noob question. Is this a computer render with an error?
I've been looking at the 2020 Batman Aquaracer GMT, and I'm confused about something. In some of the online (text-based) reviews, the pictures show a shadow on the numbers on the bezel insert, indicating to me that it is ceramic. However, every YouTube review I've seen of this watch features a smooth aluminum bezel. I find it hard to believe that every single video review is featuring a replica (?).
Check out this online review. Right above the picture of a ceramic bezel, the review says, "Sitting atop the case is the watch’s new aluminium unidirectional rotating bezel..."
Hodinkee did the same thing. Called it aluminum right above a picture of a grooved, ceramic insert.
If you go to Tag's page, it says, "Turning Bezel Ceramic." However, that's a newer model, with the date at the 6.
Did the 2020 GMT have aluminum, and Tag caught flack for it, so the new GMT has ceramic, or is there a bunch of misinformation out there?
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Companies don't snap a quick photo with their cellphone the way we do. Some graphic artist put the promo photos into a computer and did pretty things with it.
With my photography software, I can completely replace the sky, change the color of a house, and crop weight off an already tiny model. I'm sure they can add fake shadows to the numbers on a watch
I don't know but it would be a total mistake if they did that. my Aquaracer does have the ceramic insert
Not only that, but in the images they keep using of that 3 o clock date model, aside from the one with the shadow, the bezel markings seem misaligned. The bezel is aligned at the top, but starting around the 7hr line, the odd hour lines start to skew early. They begin to look more like they line up at 17min, 22min, 27min, and so on, rather than being right between at 17.5, 22.5, 27.5. The 8 hour on the bezel also seems clearly counter clockwise from where it belongs. The the 6 on the bezel remains perfectly aligned, so it's not an angle of the perspective thing. The image with the shadow and the other images seem to contradict each other. The one on Tag's site looks normal, but it's a different model, as you said.
Most watch images on brand websites are hybrid or CGI, it's the only way to get consistency across a collection. The renders were probably done before the spec had been finalised.
The Batman is aluminum. I think the only ceramic bezel insert GMT is this model