That said, it feels as a luxury watch, but that’s very much down to the outstanding build quality throughout, instead of using luxury materials per se. Mixing stainless steel and white gold (when I wore this view to a late 2017 installment of Friday Live I mistakenly said the center links and bezel were white golden, which several readers quite rightly adjusted; mea culpa) is an intriguing decision, since clearly it’s very difficult to tell which is which; there’s something almost perverse about it. It’s not something you have since it does anything in terms of casting standing, but I’ll say, it’s, in a way I did not anticipate, nice to know it is there. There’s just something a bit magic about a bit of gold, be it yellow, white, or Everose.However, the luxury you get from the white gold and steel Sky-Dweller is mainly that of something built and engineered with fantastic care, attention to detail, and accuracy, not a luxury of materials or a luxury of manually implemented decorative techniques.Just as with the dial, dial furniture along with hands, Rolex makes a number of the greatest bracelets in the business; sized to fit my seven inch wrist, the Sky-Dweller was instantly comfortable and the visual impact of the electric-blue dial made it very enjoyable to wear. I generally like to re-set time on my watch a few hours prior to landing, to just sort of get used to the idea of being in a different time zone gradually. In theory, you’d think that recalling which of the bezel positions is employed for re-setting local time may be challenging — one of my initial thoughts on getting reacquainted with all the Sky-Dweller was some sort of purpose index would be fine — but in fact, I did not have any problem, even in the bleary dimness of a redeye flight cabin, recalling both clicks to the left was correct.
The date could be read by assessing the windows over the hour mark; since there are 12 months in a year, it is simple to tell what month it is in the position of the red month marker. In the watch pictured, the 12th month — December — is indicated by the place of the reddish month mark at 12:00. Reading off house time is simple too; it is display by the rotating 24 hour ring which sits at the lower 2/3 of the dial (the horn at 12:00 indicates the hour). This has the benefit of also showing whether it’s AM or PM at home. The yearly calendar is connected to local time, which is shown by the hour hand, so that the date displayed (assuming you have set the time correctly forwards or backwards for the new time zone) will be right for your regional time zone.The overall fit and finish of this dial and case, by the way, is extremely good; under magnification the dial markers, hands and numbers are crisply defined, with irreproachable attention to detail. Rolex’s situation and dial function is equally as uniformly excellent throughout its product lines as anything at the business and what’s just as significant, this excellence is constant from watch to watch, and contributes considerably to the favorable feeling Rolex watches normally appear to make. I am always struck with this whenever I manage one for review even with Rolex versions I would not always wear a daily basis, for reasons of either flavor or practicality or price, the overall sense of exceptional build quality one has is extremely high, in the humblest Oyster Perpetual to the most opulent Day-Date. Among the most vital ways in which any luxury brand are able to keep faith with its customers is in paying just as much attention to the specifics in its least expensive products as in its expensive, and Rolex is one of the very few watch businesses I have written about over time, for this has always seemed to be true.
The latter is a feature of “authentic” GMT watches, as is how the hour is set in the crown and may be re-set to a new timezone without stopping the entire watch. There are simpler dual time zone watchesthat have a 24 hour hand that could be independently placed, but to utilize them as a traveler’s view — that is, to exhibit local time with the hour and minute hands, and home time with the 24 hour hand — generally requires quite a bit more fiddling with the crown and also entails stopping the watch while re-setting the hour and second hands, thus requiring the user to also re-set to a time standard.The yearly calendar is the next complication located in the Sky-Dweller, and is also relatively straightforward. The Gregorian calendar has times of varying length — some months have 31 days, and many others have only 30. Most importantly, February is the oddest man out, and depending on whether or not it is a Leap Year, can be either 28 or 29 days in length (29 in a Leap Year). Therefore a perpetual calendar never wants to have the date corrected manually. An yearly calendar, on the other hand, “knows” (so to speak) if it’s a 30 or 31 day month but it doesn’t understand to leap to March 1 on February 28th or 29th. Therefore, an annual calendar needs to get the date manually re-set annually. Of course, a standard calendar watch has to have the date advanced manually five times per year — once for each 30 day month, and after at the conclusion of February.The annual calendar has some significant benefits over the perpetual, although some of them have been eroded in the past couple of decades by advances in perpetual calendar design.
18kt everose gold case with a 18kt everose gold Rolex oyster bracelet. Bi-directional rotating 18kt everose gold bezel. Chocolate dial with rose gold-tone hands and Arabic numeral hour markers. Minute markers around the outer rim. Dial Type: Analog. Date display at the 3 o’clock position. 24 hour (GMT) sub-dial. Rolex calibre 9001 automatic movement with a 72-hour power reserve. Scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Screw down crown. Solid case back. Case size: 42 mm. Round case shape. Oysterlock clasp. Water resistant at 100 meters / 330 feet. Functions: date, hour, minute, second, GMT. Luxury watch style. Watch label: Swiss Made. Rolex Sky Dweller Chocolate Dial 18K Everose Gold Rolex Oyster Automatic Mens Watch 326935CHAO.
Information
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Rolex -
Sky Dweller -
326935CHAO -
Men’s -
Swiss Made -
Automatic -
Rolex Calibre 9001 -
72 hours
Case
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42 mm -
Gold -
Round -
Solid
Dial
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Analog -
Chocolate -
Scratch Resistant Sapphire -
Rose Gold-tone -
Minute Markers around the outer rim -
Arabic Numeral -
GMT Sub-dial -
Bi-directional Rotating -
Screw Down
Band
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Bracelet -
Gold Rolex Oyster -
Gold Tone, Pink -
Oysterlock
Features
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100 meters / 330 feet -
Date Display at the 3 o’clock position -
Annual Calendar, GMT, Second Time Zone, Month, Date, Hour, Minute, Second, Chronometer -
Annual Calendar, Calendar, Chronometer, GMT, Gold, Month, Time Zone
Additional Info
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Luxury Watches - 2 Year Jomashop Warranty
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845960082068 -
RLX326935CHAO -
326935-72415 -
Watches