製造商: Rolex 年份: 1977 型號: 1803 機芯編號: DD'128'390 錶殼號碼: 5'061'804 型號名稱: Day-Date "Manhattan Sunset" 材料: 18K pink gold 機芯: Automatic, cal. 1556, 26 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: 18K pink gold Rolex President bracelet, max length 185mm 錶扣: 18K pink gold Rolex deployant clasp 尺寸: 36mm. Diameter 簽名: Case, dial, movement and bracelet signed 文學: This watch is featured in The Day-Date the Presidential Rolex by Pucci Papaleo Editore, page 298 to 299.
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Rolex’s sought after ‘Stella’ dials were produced from the 1960s to the 1990s and were fitted in cases made of yellow gold, pink gold, white gold or platinum. Since the firm ceased their production, these colorful lacquered Stella dials have now achieved cult status amongst collectors and purists.
The present watch is dubbed "Manhattan Sunset" due to its burnt orange dégradé dial. Forever preserved in literature, it is prominently illustrated in "Day-Date, The Presidential Rolex" by Pucci Papaleo Editore. It is preserved in excellent condition, shimmering in a way that only Rolex lacquer dials can. Furthermore, all the luminous remain intact and round, attesting to its untouched state of preservation.
Founded in 1905 England by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis as Wilsdorf & Davis, it soon became known as the Rolex Watch Company in 1915, moving its headquarters to Geneva in 1919. Like no other company, the success of the wristwatch can be attributed to many of Rolex's innovations that made them one of the most respected and well-known of all luxury brands. These innovations include their famous "Oyster" case — the world's first water resistant and dustproof watch case, invented in 1926 — and their "Perpetual" — the first reliable self-winding movement for wristwatches launched in 1933. They would form the foundation for Rolex's Datejust and Day-Date, respectively introduced in 1945 and 1956, but also importantly for their sports watches, such as the Explorer, Submariner and GMT-Master launched in the mid-1950s.
One of its most famous models is the Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, these chronographs are without any doubt amongst the most iconic and coveted of all collectible wristwatches. Other key collectible models include their most complicated vintage watches, including references 8171 and 6062 with triple calendar and moon phase, "Jean Claude Killy" triple date chronograph models and the Submariner, including early "big-crown" models and military-issued variants.
