So, have you ever wanted to own a piece of history like this, the 16013? You'll see why this one's kind of a special watch, especially, well, to me personally, and maybe to you as well. Welcome back to JazTime. JazTime.com is an online store that buys, sells, and trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so you can easily choose the best watch for yourself in the comfort of your own home. We offer the lowest prices anywhere online. And if you'd like to know the price, simply click on the link there in the description below. We'd greatly appreciate if you purchase your next watch from us at JazTime.com, while I also knocked over my lighting equipment. All right, now we'll be talking about this Rolex Datejust from the mid to early '80s. I believe this one's from 1983, if I understand the serial correctly, an eight serial. Anyway, we'll be going over the case, the dial, the bezel, crown, the crown functions, as well as the bracelet, and all of the peripherals to go along with that deep wearing experience as well. And why this one? It's kind of a special watch. All right. As you can see, this is a Rolex Datejust 36. From finger to thumb, 36 millimeters. It contains a complete Oystersteel case with holes in it for easy adjustment of the bracelet should you ever need to switch it out, with a screw-down case back, and winding crown to ensure water resistance down to 300 meters, or 330 feet, or 100 meters below sea level. This one features a two-tone overall look, otherwise known as a Rolesor, meaning that it has yellow gold, in this case, yellow gold on the middle three links of this Jubilee bracelet, and yellow gold bezel, all right. The fluted-style bezel, which is always made with some sort of gold, this yellow Rolesor being Rolex's own in-house-made proprietary blend of yellow gold, with other materials, including Oystersteel, to create a very strong, robust gold that still maintains its shine, even to today, early 2021. This watch is actually older than I am, this specific watch, anyway, as it was made, again, in '83, and, you know, certainly older than I am. Taking a look closer at this dial. Now you'll notice that the reflection on the crystal is different from the other videos that I've been putting out on Rolex Datejust, and that's because that this crystal is actually made of acrylic, before the time of sapphire crystals. Still has a cyclops lens for easy reading of the date, as you can see. It's a very small aperture on the dial, but under the cyclops lens, nice and big. All right. So, keep in mind that this is not as scratch-resistant, nowhere near as scratch-resistant, as sapphire, which has basically the configuration of diamond. Very, very robust. This one, not as much, but still incredibly strong. And with the acrylic crystal, it's important to note that if you replace this acrylic with a sapphire crystal, it will not actually hold its waterproofness rating. It will actually become waterlogged the second you dip underwater. If you go outside in the rain, or wash your hands, no problem, no issue there, but just keep in mind, if you get this crystal replaced with a sapphire, it will very much not keep that waterproofness, all right. Now, taking a closer look at this dial. We have what's known as a champagne dial, with a vertical tapestry pattern, all right. Now, that's not exactly what makes this watch entirely special, although it is quite unique to this watch, because they don't really make these champagne tapestries anymore, especially in the more modern era of Datejust watches. Taking a closer look at that printing directly onto this sort of fluting of this dial, all right. So, if you look at it straight on, very easy to read. At certain angles, it sort of makes parts of the lettering disappear, which is quite interesting, very characteristic, and quite distinctive of this dial. All 18-carat gold index placements, all the way around, minus the 12 and three o'clock positions, the 12 being the Rolex crown, the three o'clock position being the date aperture. Now, if I turn off the lights, you'll note that it's actually not the newer Chromalight, or any sort of luminescence at all, all right. This is before the time of applied luminescence onto all of these aspects. So, keep in mind that even though that this is an index hour-mark watch, a Datejust, a Rolex Datejust from early '80s, there's no luminescence to speak of here, all right. Purely, well, I won't say purely decorative, because you do get more decoration than function in low-light situations. Well, the watch isn't all that useful in low-light situations when it doesn't glow anyway. All right, now, taking a look at how this works. It works as you would expect for a Rolex Datejust. Simply unwind it. So, the first position, this allows you to wind the watch. Now the damping on the winding is actually incredibly high. So, if you're used to more modern-day Rolex watches, it will turn very easily. This one has quite a bit of resistance to it. A lot of that due to the antiquated mechanical parts of this watch, all right, certainly not a bad thing. All right, now, let me move the minute hand out of the way for a minute. If you pull it out to the second position, and you rotate the crown counter-clockwise, you can actually access the quickset of this date. Now, keep in mind that you can't do this before 8:30 a.m. and after 6:30 p.m., because during that time, the date aperture, the mechanics in charge of changing the date at midnight are actually engaged. So, doing so could potentially damage the movement. Now this is currently 10:05, 10:06 a.m. Okay. So, it's perfectly safe to set the date. And when you set the date, say, okay, keep in mind that also it's an entire rotation to advance the date by one. And also note the sort of almost, at this point, whimsical-looking font within the date aperture, all right. We have different varying degrees of font sizes. We have the fat four, all right, and interesting number sixes, sevens, eights, and nines, especially the number threes. Those are quite interesting in their own right. And also the 20, the two has a different size, depending on the number. When you have 21 or 20 you have a smaller two, or a wider two, but then these other numbers, the two is actually smaller. Okay. So quite an interesting little feature there. Now, if you find yourself on the 30th of a month, tomorrow is the 31st, or, rather, if tomorrow is the first of the next month, it's better to set the date once you are there already on the first. So you'll actually wake up the next morning on the 31st, wait until about 10, or after 8:30, about time when you're ready to go into work. That's when you would engage this quickset date, and advance it to the first. All right, nice and easy. Just keep that in mind, all right. Now, pull out the crown to the final position. Note that there's a hacking seconds function. Something that a lot of watchmakers actually seem to overlook, but Rolex have built this into their movement, quite handily, from as early as 1977, where this movement came from, all right. Now you can simply move the minute hand precisely to any position, any minute, required, all right. Press the crown back in and screw it tightly back against the case to ensure that superior water resistance, all right. Now, what makes all of this work, again? The introduced in 1977 is the Rolex caliber 3035, 3035, all right. It has 27 jewels, less than the current models, which have 30-plus, this one has a BPH and vibration per hour rating of 28,800, meaning four Hertz, or in other words, eight ticks per second, Incredibly, incredibly reliable, incredibly precise. Even from the early '80s or late '70s, depending on what you want to refer to in terms of the movement, late '70s, all right. It has the center-mounted hour, minute, and seconds hand, with the date aperture, and stop seconds for precise time-setting. It has the free-sprung Breguet balance spring, and it has a COSC certification, plus or minus two seconds per day time differential. Something that they preserved throughout many of the years that they've been in service, all right. All right. Now, taking a look here at the bracelet. It is all hollow links. If you turn it sideways, the only solid links are on these outer steel portions here, the outer links being a satin brush finishing on the outside, while the middle three links, the intermediary links, all in yellow gold, are actually hollow, all right. So, if you turn it to the side, you see that there's actually space among all these links, giving it a much more bendable sort of feature here, which actually quite conforms to any wrist very nicely. All right. Now, moving down to the oyster clasp. Functions as you would expect . Just simply lift the top to unhook it. Nice and easy. Rolex stamped logo on the inside. All right, while I'm here, I'll actually try it on. Give you my thoughts as to how it fits on the wrist. Now, keep in mind, this is a smaller watch, a 36 model. I do prefer 36s myself. I measure seven inches around the wrist, and this one actually did come to us pre-owned, so there may be some links removed, and just simply lost over time. But keep in mind, this one actually fits very nicely. I do myself prefer 36-millimeter models, because with the integrated bracelet, I do get plenty of framing on the top and bottom, and easy reading of that dial. No problem there. And what this champagne overall look gives it, a very vertical sense, especially with this tapestry dial, gives it this overall conformity of verticality integrated into the dial, as well as the rest of the bracelet. So, cohesive in its appearance, yes. And certainly very easy to read as well, with those 18-carat gold counters, makes it incredibly easy to read, no matter what time it is. Now, as to the wearability of this, incredibly light, so incredibly light. Lighter than the modern-day 36-millimeter models, all right. The lugs do hang a little bit over the edge of my wrist. Not that that's an issue because plenty of space among all of these Jubilee links makes it a very, very comfortable, very soft, and incredibly breathable overall feel, all right. Now, what makes this watch so special? Well, if you search up the reference number, 16013, you'll find that this is in fact known as the "American Psycho" watch, the watch popularized and used in the movie, and referenced consistently throughout the novel "American Psycho," also worn by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. One of my favorite movies ever of all time, because it's just absolutely absurd, and actually hilarious in many of its portions. But this watch actually does play quite an integral, well, I wouldn't say it's a plot point, but it is mentioned here and there in the movie, but Rolex didn't want this watch to be mentioned in the movie, so, obviously, there is one portion where he said "Don't touch the Rolex," but they had to switch out the line to, "Don't touch the watch." Same sort of thing. You can see I'm wearing this model, the 16013. Maybe not with this dial, maybe more with the silver dial, or champagne, just plain champagne dial, but still, this is the reference number featured in that movie. One of my favorite movies ever, of all time. All right. So, I don't know, perhaps, why would you want to get an '80s watch? Well, I posed that question earlier. Would you like to own a piece of history? And certainly, this is a piece of history. Let me give you a little anecdotal evidence. I own a Canon 5D Mark IV, a DSLR, a digital single-lens reflex camera. Not to worry. I'm not gonna go over all the technical aspects of that, but it's, at this point, a very old camera, and has been superseded by the EOS R, which is a mirrorless camera, no mirror. And it's just better in every way. But, and even though I had the EOS R for myself, I still like to use the 5D Mark IV, because not only is it a piece of history, but it also has a lot of those things that I actually find dear. So, in much the same respect, when you have this sort of almost crunchy feel of turning the crown, you get that tactile feedback, something that you don't get quite as much in the newer Rolex models, because it's a very smooth turn. This one's a little bit rougher feeling, so you can actually feel the gears turning, and you can also adjust the time, and it just feels different. There's just something about this watch that just feels different to the touch, and to the mechanics internally as you change them using the crown here, and also the sensibilities of Rolex using, well, at this time, at this point in time, this is sort of a dated look, but that's just sort of what makes it so special, this sort of '80s look. So, would you like to own a piece of history? I personally would, and I personally already do, maybe not in the Rolex line, but you know, in the Canon camera line, I certainly do. And, you could own a piece of history as well, yourself, also featured in one of my favorite movies as well, could be one of yours, either, also. Anyway, what do you think about this watch? Let us know down in the comments below what you think. Maybe you wanna pick this one up. Maybe you don't. Let us know why, and also subscribe, if you haven't already. Click the bell notification, so you can be notified when we go live with another video like this one. And as always, if you'd like to purchase this watch, or any other watch, current production, or even discontinued like this one, maybe kind of a famous one as well, let us know. Go to our website down below in the description, JazTime.com. Links down in the description below. We'll see you in the next one, and take care.