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I forgot to add that the color and composition of the metals inside the watches movement doesn't matter because they are hidden from view. .....Almost all watches, even pricy platinum cased ones, have brass "guts," albeit that quite often the interior parts are rhodium plated, thus making them appear "silver" when in fact, they are brass. There are also some watches that have gold (white, yellow or rose/pink) plated movements. Then there's the somewhat rarer situation wherein the watch case is hewn from an acceptable substance, but the movement inside is made of gold rather than being plated with it.
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Well sort of....though admittedly, the matter isn't one most Muslims will likely find themselves having to address.
Strictly speaking the movement inside that watch is rose gold rather than yellow gold, but seems like splitting hairs to me. (The case isn't gold at all.) Regardless of what the movement is made of, presentation backs are quite common, and that so many watches these days have presentation backs is what I had in mind when I above wrote, "sort of." I was thinking about the fact that one can see the "guts" more so than how readily one may see it.
Off Topic a bit:
Along the lines of "what one can see and what one cannot see (readily)," it's never been terribly clear to me why Mr. Journe made the watch shown below with Mashriqi Arabic numerals. My friends in the UAE and Syria (well, they don't live in Syria now) saw that watch and wondered just who might buy and wear it, as did I. I'm sure, however, that not all Muslims strictly follow the gold prohibition, just as not all Jews wear a yarmulke. Only ~100 of them were made, and they were made for two purposes: (1) to help raise money for the Rashid Centre for the Disabled (UAE) -- they are basically $25K watches that went for ~$150K -- and (2) for collectors, albeit Arabs/Muslims were the intended target customers/collectors, who were of a mind to donate money to the Centre.