Dr. N.
Il Rolex Day-Date it is one of the most prestigious models of the House of the Crown. Contends to Rolex Daytonsto the role of status symbol watch in the range Rolex.
How did the Rolex Day-Date, and why has it become a symbol of prestige associated with men of power? Let's find out in this article.
Rolex Day-Date: the origins
In 1956, Rolex decides to launch a watch that displays both the date of the month and the full day of the week on the dial. It is an innovative model, because it integrates the innovations that had already made famous Rolex, like the cash register Oyster and movement Automatic Perpetual, with the date and day of the week displayed. All this in an elegant and compact 36 mm case.
It is not the first time Rolex puts a date window at three o'clock in its watches: it had already been seen with the Rolex Datejust a decade earlier. But here we are in the presence for the first time of a Rolex able to mark both the day of the month and the week, in full: all without disturbing the cleanliness and legibility of the dial which Rolex got us used to it.
Rolex Day-Date: the President bracelet
The semi-cylindrical triple link bracelet with which the Rolex Day-Date is now associated in the collector's imagination was born together with Day-Date same. But Rolex has not always called "President”This particular bracelet: the choice of the name is almost random. In fact, in the promotional material of the XNUMXs, the bracelet watch was called "President“, A clear allusion to the preference accorded to this timepiece by numerous men of power. Only in a later period did the wording "President"Was reserved for bracelet and it stopped being synonymous with the whole clock.
Rolex Day-Date today
Il Rolex Day-Date has undergone various updates, always remaining faithful to the original lines. The thirty-six-millimeter-diameter model is still in production. The introduction of the Rolex Day-Date II, with 41 mm case, in 2008: the lines were more massive than we are used to seeing for this model. In 2015 Rolex therefore decides to replace it with a more proportionate 40 mm version, while maintaining in production, as mentioned above, the more classic Day-Date from thirty-six millimeters in diameter, albeit with the usual, prudent functional and aesthetic updates which Rolex got us used to it.
Of course, the Rolex Day-Date today it is equipped with sapphire crystal, like the whole range Rolex, to guarantee better protection from scratches.
Is the Rolex Day-Date for me?
Il Rolex Day-Date it is certainly a challenging watch to wear. This model, in fact, is made exclusively in precious metals: yellow gold, pink gold, white gold and platinum. There are no sporty steel Rolex Day-Dates, in order to understand each other.
But if you want a Rolex for important occasions, which retains its charm intact thanks also to the choice not to stop the production of the 36 mm model - whose proportions are truly ideal -, and at the same time you want to distinguish yourself from Rolex most popular, the Rolex Day-Date it is certainly a choice you will not regret.
