Day-Date 128232 replica

Among Rolex‘s new watches this year, the new green and black “Sprite Circle” GMT and the new Air Master are the two new watches that have attracted the most attention from players. In addition to these two sporty models, there is also a heavyweight Rolex, which has undergone a major facelift this year, and that is Rolex‘s new platinum Day-Date calendar. The new platinum Day-Date uses a new dogtooth bezel that replaces the previous burnished bezel. It is true that because the Rolex platinum Day-Date is very expensive, with a public price starting at 500,000 yuan, relatively few players pay attention to the new platinum Day-Date. However, the new platinum Day-Date facelift is significant and unprecedented.

The Rolex Day-Date has been available in platinum since its inception in 1956. For the past 65 years, from 1956 to 2021, the Rolex Day-Date platinum case model has used a polished bezel that has not changed. As a result, the yellow gold Day-Date, rose gold Day-Date, and white gold Day-Date all use dogtooth bezels, but the platinum Day-Date uses a polished bezel. However, you can recognize the Day-Date as soon as you see the “polished bezel”, which is the most expensive platinum case DD in the Day-Date family.

But things changed this year (2022), when Rolex replaced the platinum case Day-Date with a “Dogtooth Ring” and completely discontinued the production of the “Polished Circle” platinum DD, breaking a 65-year-old tradition. Since then, the Rolex Day-Date family, regardless of gold, white gold, rose gold, or platinum, no longer features polished bezels; dogtooth rings “dominate the rivers and lakes” (except for dogtooth bezels set with diamonds).

Because Rolex couldn’t make a platinum dogtooth ring before. Platinum is the most valuable precious metal in a watch. Compared with 18K gold, such as yellow gold, white gold, and rose gold, platinum has a high melting point and high hardness, making it difficult to recast and polish. Platinum is very expensive and difficult to process. This is why, among famous watches, the platinum case of the same watch is 30% or more higher than the official price of the 18K gold case.