製造商: Rolex 年份: Circa 1977 型號: 18038 機芯編號: 0’553’603 錶殼號碼: 5’454’111 型號名稱: Day-Date, “Golden Walnut” 材料: 18K yellow gold 機芯: Automatic, cal. 3055, 27 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: Leather 錶扣: 18K yellow gold Rolex pin buckle 尺寸: 36mm diameter 簽名: Case, dial, movement and buckle signed 文學: A similar example prominently illustrated in the Day-Date The Presidential Rolex by Pucci Papaleo p 434
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Nicknamed the “Golden Walnut” by Pucci Papaleo, the present ref. 18038 is a yellow gold Day-Date featuring a delicious non-luminous lacquered wood dial in reddish-brown mahogany briar root. Combining exceptional craftsmanship with organic beauty, the close-grained pattern found in this example is extremely difficult to execute as each wood dial is painstakingly delicate and requires only the most skilled artisans to perfect. Complemented with a Chinese quickset calendar, the present timepiece is exemplary of just how personal a Day-Date can be and that it can be used to expresses the cultural identity of its wearer. The rarest of all language discs, the hand-written quick-set calendar is most likely to have been originated from Taiwan.
Well-preserved for 45 years, the present “Golden Walnut” is offered excellent overall condition and further enhanced with the effects of natural aging and sun exposure, giving it a completely unique allure like no other Day-Dates. Given its rarity and natural charm, the opportunity to acquire this watch is perhaps as rare as the timepiece itself.
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.