Posts Tagged ‘18039’
Jasper Dial 18039 Rolex Day-Date
Of all standard production Rolex models, white precious metal and a jasper dial has to be in the top five of outright rarity. You’ll see jasper in yellow gold with some frequency, a handful yearly popping up in the market. But in white precious metal, not gem set, fewer than 10 are known. My current…
Read MoreBlue Stella 18039 Rolex Day-Date
From lilac to yellow, Stella dials are ‘in’, whatever that means. Every time I see a great one come up for sale these days, and the accompanying punchy ask, the ‘so hot right now’ Zoolander meme comes immediately to mind. I normally totally eschew anything fashionable; fashion is of the now. By definition fashion cycles.…
Read MoreBloodstone Dial 18039 Rolex Day-Date
Many of the most scarce stone dial Day-Dates share one thing in common: no indices. Why? Certainly, that makes it a bit tricky to glance the time. No, I choose to believe it’s more of an attitude: that Rolex believed once one owns a white gold President with a bloodstone dial, they may arrive anywhere…
Read MoreBurl Wood Dial 18039 Rolex Day-Date
Over the years, Rolex’s Day-Date has played host to many an exotic dial. But wood? Wood has no carat rating, wood is essentially always decomposing, and wood’s inherent market value only arrives in far larger quantities than a 36mm dial. Wood has received many a black eye as a watchmaking material from countless eco-brands whose…
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