Replica Rolex Day-Date m228238 Gold Dial

Champagne under a stone bezel

Here the dial colour is close to the case colour, so the watch reads as one warm block and the stones do the contrast work. The markers are baguettes, the hands gold tone, and the date window at 3 carries the Cyclops lens. On the main photo the dial has a fine sunburst. The black dial version with the same baguette bezel uses exactly this case.

Details from the photos

The rest of the build

The case and President bracelet are 904L steel with yellow gold plating; read our Day-Date plating article for what plating means in daily wear. Sapphire crystal with an anti-reflective coating. Gallery photos 06 to 10 show the case side, crown and clasp, which are identical on the black version.

Movement

Japanese: a Miyota-based automatic with about 40 hours and quickset date. Swiss: built to follow the original caliber, about 70 hours at 28,800 vph. Water: 30 m. For a white-tone stone bezel instead, see the white-tone baguette-bezel Day-Date with a silver dial; for every other combination, Day-Date models in one place.

Is the dial gold or champagne?

Champagne: a pale gold sunburst, lighter than the yellow plating of the case, as the main photo shows.