I've seen both and was never really sure if it was aging making the gold hands look more silver. I expect that service replacements might have been silver.
I was told Gold and that's what I prefer.
How Submariners always look bigger on someone elses wrist?
I met up with a buddy I hadn't seen in many years yesterday and he had a classic 16610 Sub. It looked much bigger that I feel mine look on my wrist. And he is bigger than me
Just saying