Lot 182

Rolex

Florentine Day-Date

An exquisite and extremely rare vintage wristwatch with date, weekday indicator in Spanish writing, rare linen dial, textured case and brick style gold bracelet with Florentine or "Morellis" finish - with later original box, Rolex card holder wallet, original sales receipt and two original guarantee certificates dated October 5th, 1965, issued by Fred jewellers, Aéroport de Paris-Orly, Rolex catalogue 1965-1966, Rolex Mexico service invoice from January 1988 and two booklets

This vintage bracelet watch is something very special. All visible surfaces are textured, giving the classic Day-Date a beautiful and unique aesthetic. For the elaborate surface decoration, the Florentine technique was used, which was developed to decorate precious metals.
Rolex experimented with different surface designs and a variety of different materials for the Day-Date dials from the mid-1960s onwards and saw their heyday in the 1970s.
Reference 1806 is one of the rarest Day-Date models and very few are in such good condition. The textured, champagne-coloured dial has slightly darkened, extremely well-preserved luminous dots that perfectly match the luminous material of the baton gold hands. The unusual gold bracelet is in excellent condition; only bezel and horns show a few honest signs of ageing.