The dial
Sunray blue with applied hour markers in white gold — legible in any light, and rarely the same colour twice in a day.
Rolex · Oyster Perpetual
Datejust 41
Ref. 126334The standard the others are compared to.
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Oystersteel with a white gold fluted bezel, a bright blue dial and the Jubilee bracelet — the Rolex that taught everyone what a Rolex looks like.
The reference
Inside the Datejust 41.
The Datejust arrived in 1945 as the first self-winding chronometer wristwatch to show the date in a window. Almost everything the wider world pictures when it pictures a wristwatch traces back to it.
This is the 126334: a 41 mm Oystersteel case closed by an 18 ct white gold fluted bezel, and a bright blue dial that shifts from near-navy to something almost luminous depending on where you are standing.
The Jubilee bracelet — five-piece links, made for the brand’s fortieth anniversary — softens it enough for a shirt cuff, and the calibre 3235 underneath gives roughly seventy hours. It is the least demonstrative watch here, and the hardest to argue with.
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The fluted bezel in 18 ct white gold, originally a functional means of screwing the case down, kept because nothing else reads quite like it.
The movement
Calibre 3235 with the Chronergy escapement and ~70h reserve. Certified Superlative Chronometer.
“Everything else is a variation. This is the theme.”
Specification
The reference, in full.
- Case
- 41 mm — Oystersteel
- Bezel
- Fluted, 18 ct white gold
- Movement
- Perpetual, mechanical — Cal. 3235
- Power reserve
- Approx. 70 hours
- Bracelet
- Jubilee, five-piece links
- Water resistance
- 100 m / 330 ft
- Crystal
- Scratch-resistant sapphire
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