When you scroll back up to look at the picture of the watch, you should know that all the parts that are black in the picture (the hands, the hour markers, the ring inside the rhinestones, etc) are actually gold.  Maybe it was some kind of weird reflection when they were taking the promo pictures?  Anyway, it's GREAT that those parts are gold.  And the background is silver, not white like it kind of looks in the picture too.  It looks much more elegant that way. You also can't tell in the picture, but the background for the three small circles (day of the week, day of the month, 24 hour clock) are mother-of-pearl and lovely.  All the pretty elements are offset by the size of the watch, which is rather masculine.  I have very narrow wrists and from hinge to hinge on either side of the watch face is pretty much the width of my wrist.  That's what I was going for, but beware that it's a little over-sized.  Over all, it's a great watch and versatile with many different kinds of jewelry.  If I need to tone down the bling, I just wear the watch face on the inside of my wrist. I bought a watch to wean myself off of carrying my cellphone everywhere, and this is pretty enough it might do the trick!