Rolex Day-Date 36 Yellow Gold Champagne Diamond Dial & Fluted Bezel President Bracelet 18238 - PRE-OWNED

Rolex Day-Date 36 Yellow Gold Champagne Diamond Dial & Fluted Bezel President Bracelet 18238 - PRE-OWNED

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INFORMATION

Condition
Used
Box/Papers
No Box or Papers
Brand
Rolex
Production Year
1970-1989 Vintage
Model Number
18238
Series
Day-Date 36
Model Year
1991-2004 Double Quick Set

CASE

Crown
Screw Down
Bezel
Yellow Gold Fluted
Movement
Automatic
Case Back
Solid
Material
Yellow Gold
Case Size
36 mm
Case Shape
Round

DIAL

Dial Type
Analog
Date at
3 o’clock
Dial Color
Champagne
Dial Markers
Set with Diamonds
Hands
Yellow Gold

BRACELET

Band Material
Yellow Gold
Clasp
Concealed Folding Crownclasp
Bracelet
President

ADDITIONAL INFO

Watch Style
Dress Watch
Gender
Men's
Country of Manufacture
Switzerland
Complication
Date, Day Date
Water Resistance
100 Meters (330 Feet)
 

Description

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 links in the description below. We'd greatly appreciate if you purchase your next watch from us, at jaztime.com. Today we'll be going over quite an old watch, from the 90s I believe, it's a Rolex Day Date 36. with a yellow gold case, bezel, and president style bracelet, reference number 18238. We'll be going over the case, the dial, bezel, crown functions, the movement, as well as the bracelet. And I'll be giving you my thoughts on all of these, as well as the wearing experience at the end of the video. All right, so first off, the case. 36 millimeters as indicated in the name, Day Date 36. From finger to thumb, 36 millimeters. I also measured 12.1 millimeters in thickness. So not the thinnest, but still very nice once sliding under a suit cuff. It measures lug to lug distance, about 43.5 millimeters. So kind of big, but actually not too large, very manageable. And I'll be showing you how it wears on the wrist, thereafter. All right, so again, this case, all yellow gold. High polish along the sides, front, every single aspect. Actually not high polish on the front, these older Day Dates from the 90s show a satin brushed finishing on these, on the fronts of these lugs. So that's something that you can only get with these older generations of Day Dates. As you can see here, satin brushed finishing, diffuses the light very nicely. So it's not quite bringing, it's not bringing so much attention to you as much as the dial and the bezel do. And speaking of the bezel, the bezel is also a matching yellow gold, also 18 carat. And also, note that the bezel is a fluted style. The fluted style bezel was originally made for the purpose of screwing directly onto the front of the watch to ensure waterproofness. But you know, technology over time has made that rather, kind of obsolete, not really absolutely necessary. So now it's there as decoration, and also to show you that it is certainly a Rolex that you are dealing with. And moving down into the dial here, we have a diamond type of dial with eight round diamonds, with two baguette style diamonds at the six and nine o'clock positions. Very nicely balancing out the day aperture at the 12 o'clock, and the date aperture at the three o'clock. The three o'clock has the sapphire. A cyclops lens on that scratch-resistant sapphire, so you can very quickly and very easily read the date. All right, and now, when it comes to the functions of this watch, it works as you would expect from any Day Date. Simply unwind the crown to the first position. You can wind the watch if you're already at a dead stop. Just about 20 to 30 winds is all you need. Once you start feeling that damping starting to ramp up, you know that the main spring is at its full charge and you don't need to wind it anymore. All right, pull out to the second position, and here's where it gets a little special for Day Dates. Rotate the crown clockwise to advance the date forward. It's about a quarter turn, so the throw is very, very short to advance the date at the three o'clock position. All right, and rotate it counter-clockwise. It's about the same throw, a quarter turn, to advance the date or the day rather, forward at the 12 o'clock position. All right, rather easy and simple to do. Now, pull out to the final position and note that it features the hacking seconds. That stops the seconds hand, so you can then adjust the minute hand precisely, based on the second hand position. Adjust it to an atomic clock, then press the crown in and wind it tightly against that case for the superior 100 meter water resistance, or 330 feet below sea level. All right, now when it comes to the movement, this is actually an older style movement. The 3155 made in-house by Rolex. It has a 28.5 millimeter diameter, with 31 jewels. Has a power reserve of only 48 hours, so not quite as much as, you know, newer models that have the 55 or 70 hour power reserve. But you know, 48 hours is nothing to shake a finger at. It's actually really good for something like this with so many complications on it. With the date and the day showing up on there, respectively. It has the center hour, minute and seconds hands mounted on there, sweeping seconds. With the day and date apertures as shown there, along with the stop seconds. And it also has a rapid setting, unrestricted actually, rapid setting of the day and the date. It doesn't matter what time of day that you are on, you can still set the date and the day without potentially damaging the movement inside. Because most movements, or older legacy movements rather, restrict that sort of day and date setting between the hours of say about 6:30 PM and 8:30 AM. And you know, that's when the day and the date mechanisms on the inside are actually engaged, during that entire time. So if you were to mess with the date or the day aperture settings there, you know, it could actually potentially damage or even break the movement. So be careful with the older ones. This one is actually pretty good, it allows for that unrestricted rapid setting, all right. And now, taking a look at the bracelet here, the framing for this entire watch. Zooming out a bit here. We have the president style bracelet, combining both worlds of the flat three-piece links that you would find on the oyster bracelet, with the rounded semicircular links that you find on the jubilee style bracelets. So what you have here is the president style bracelet. The center links being high polish, with a satin brushed finishing along the outer links. And on these older style models, you have a satin brushed finishing as well along the sides, going laterally all the way down. A very nice tasteful taper, all the way down to the concealed folding crown clasp. And what that is, is essentially to show you that the entire clasp, or the entire bracelet rather, is completely, you know, all together. There's no separation here, the only tiny bit of separation you can see is with this Rolex crown. And that is where you open the clasp, simply lift, or place your finger underneath the top of the crown, lift and easy to open. But note that this is an older style watch, the 18 style watch, not the 118 style, and so this is the older style buckle, It's not the hook and beak system, it's more like a hole with a slightly larger, very large chunky pin. All right, so you're gonna need a little bit of extra force to open it if you need it. All right. And there's also potential here for possibly pinching your skin if you wear this extremely snug around your wrist. I wouldn't recommend it, but a little bit of breathing room is always very nice. And when it comes to the breathability of this sort of bracelet, you get, it's second to none. Well, maybe the jubilee style, because those are five-piece links, with more spacing within them. But you get the same sort of satin feel. That very subtle and very comfortable feel that you get from the jubilee style bracelet, in this president bracelet. With the strength of the oyster style bracelets, which have, you know, fewer pieces, fewer failure points potentially. But this is Rolex, you're not gonna get any failure points. And now looking at it on the wrist, this is a 36 millimeter diameter watch. With the 43.5 lug to lug distance. So I'm getting a very good framing of the case, by the bracelet on both sides, the 12 o'clock and the six o'clock side. With a very, very nice open appearance for the dial there. Very easy to read, very, very easy. And it's actually also a very warm tone. So on my skin color, well, it fits in quite nicely. If you have a different skin color, very, very light-skin color, or even darker than mine, this would stand out very handsomely. And when it comes to the wearing experience, it's a Day Date, so it's heavy. It has all of those mechanics in there to give you the day and the date, with all the functions that you would expect from Rolex. So kind of heavy on the wrist. The counterbalance of the bracelet is not quite enough to keep the center of gravity right in the center of your wrist. But, you know, you're certainly getting what you paid for. All right, and when it comes to the... Also the back of the case is a solid case back. I've left the factory sticker on here, just to show you that that is what it looks like on the back there. It also has the model number, 18238, there. All right, and you know, you are certainly getting all of your precious metals worth there. And also under the lugs here, there are also tiny hallmarks. So you know for certain that you are dealing with precious metals. In this case, yellow gold entirely, within the whole construction, all right, with a matching champagne dial. And let me actually talk to you about this dial once more, because I find this minute and second track very interesting. I have a very bolded, 12 o'clock, black mark at the top. With sorta like pearl-shaped circles for each of the hour marks along the outside. With a very tasteful like up and down movement of those intermediate second and minute marks. Very different from say, the 18239, which I also happen to have here. A silver index, which actually has Roman numerals instead, with a very clear track on the outside. The 18238, this Day Date has, you know, broken up pieces that sort of have this sense of movement, an up and down. Very subtle, very low on the visual hierarchy, but very, very tasteful, very nicely placed as well. All right, so enough of what I think, what do you think about this watch? Let us know down in the comments below. Would you consider something like this from the 90s? I think this one holds up very nicely. But again, if you have any thoughts on this one, I'd love to hear them down in the comments below. Be sure to like this video if you've learned something. And if you have the chance, definitely click that subscribe button. Hit that bell notification so you can be notified when we go live with another video like this one. 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