製造商: Rolex 年份: Circa 1999 型號: 18239 機芯編號: 7’798’778 錶殼號碼: A602’826 型號名稱: Day-Date 材料: 18K white gold 機芯: Automatic, cal. 3155, 31 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: 18K white gold Rolex President bracelet, max length 170mm 錶扣: 18K white gold Rolex concealed folding clasp 尺寸: 36mm diameter 簽名: Case, dial, movement, bracelet and clasp signed 配件: Accompanied by Rolex guarantee stamped Precision Watch Co., LTD, Hong Kong dated 26th August 1999. 文學: A similar example prominently illustrated in the Day-Date The Presidential Rolex by Pucci Papaleo p 406-407
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This superb white gold Day-Date is fitted with an incredibly attractive and very rare blue sodalite dial with diamond-set indexes. The deep blue "mottled pattern" surface of the sodalite dial - with no two dials being the same - provides perfect contrast for the white of the diamond-set numerals and gold case to truly shine. The calendar windows, like with all hard-stone dials, are framed in white metal.
Hardstone dials are among the most attractive and collectible dials to have ever found their way into the Day-Date line. Beyond the present sodalite, other stones have been employed by Rolex: onyx, malachite, marble, agate and jade are just some examples of this remarkable diversity.
Offered in attractive overall condition, the present Rolex Day-Date ref. 18239 equipped with a double quick-set function for its day and date indications featuring the elusive sodalite dial with diamond-set indexes is a sight to behold for passionate collectors of Day-Dates and hardstone dials.
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.