製造商: Rolex 年份: Circa 1990 型號: 18238 機芯編號: 5'322'808 錶殼號碼: E'316'715 型號名稱: Day-Date 材料: 18K yellow gold 機芯: Automatic, cal. 3155, 31 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: 18K yellow gold Rolex President bracelet, max length 190mm 錶扣: 18K yellow gold Rolex deployant clasp 尺寸: 36mm Diameter 簽名: Case, dial, movement and bracelet signed 文學: For a similar example, please see Day-Date, The Presidential Rolex by Pucci Papaleo Editore, pages 404 and 405.
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Ever glamorous, the Day-Date model delights with its myriad of dial, bracelet, bezel and gold-finished designs. The present watch, reference 18238, is fitted with a beautiful malachite hard stone dial. Rolex in particular excels in using hard stone. The firm has elevated their Day-Date models with materials such as rubellite, blood stone, coral, and even fossil, providing an unusual design twist to the iconic model.
Boasting sharp finishes to the edge of the lugs and crisp hallmarks, the present watch even displays the original case back sticker. The bracelet is tight and in excellent condition as well.
Founded in 1905 England by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis as Wilsdorf & Davis, it soon became known as the Rolex Watch Company in 1915, moving its headquarters to Geneva in 1919. Like no other company, the success of the wristwatch can be attributed to many of Rolex's innovations that made them one of the most respected and well-known of all luxury brands. These innovations include their famous "Oyster" case — the world's first water resistant and dustproof watch case, invented in 1926 — and their "Perpetual" — the first reliable self-winding movement for wristwatches launched in 1933. They would form the foundation for Rolex's Datejust and Day-Date, respectively introduced in 1945 and 1956, but also importantly for their sports watches, such as the Explorer, Submariner and GMT-Master launched in the mid-1950s.
One of its most famous models is the Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, these chronographs are without any doubt amongst the most iconic and coveted of all collectible wristwatches. Other key collectible models include their most complicated vintage watches, including references 8171 and 6062 with triple calendar and moon phase, "Jean Claude Killy" triple date chronograph models and the Submariner, including early "big-crown" models and military-issued variants.