Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. We've got a couple of really interesting watches
from yesteryear. When I say that, I don't necessarily mean that these are vintage, but
we carry here at SwissWatchExpo production from lots of different model years. So instead of
being at the authorized dealer where they only have this year's models,
one of the great things that SwissWatchExpo is that you're able to select from multiple
production years. These were made in 2001, 2002 model year, and you can't get them anymore.
They're not made by Rolex anymore. It's such a unique, interesting look.
One of the great things that you can get here, this is a great, his and hers collection. Would
be a great idea for Valentine's day, but anytime of the year, really that you can have something
other than say, traditional wedding rings as a matching bond between you and your love.
It's really a lot of fun to have the his and hers watch collections. And these are so unusual that
you definitely won't ever see one on someone else's rest when you're out and about. So
these are the 01-02 model year in the Rolex Day Date and Lady President, the six digit
reference numbers show that here on the Day Date, you can see the lugs are a lot bigger
than the previous generation. They're high polish. The case looks a little bit chunkier,
even though it is the same diameter, the watch bracelets, the center links are solid instead of
semi hollows. So they'd definitely have a lot more gold weight. It's more of a heavy duty,
more of a bracelet that seems like it's heavy enough to stand up to the day-to-day wear,
even though the other one was too, they just improved everything as they always do at Rolex.
They just continuously improve things. But what's really interesting about these, what you'll notice
that's different from the standard lady date, just a yellow gold and the, the Day-Date President
is the dials. Now, one of the things that's different about Rolex from other watch
companies is that they completely manufacture their dials in house. They design them,
they produce them. They're manufactured, there's different teams, there's gem setters. There are
printers that, and they do that all vertically in-house. So they have a complete control over the
quality. When you look at these dials, there's so much that has to be done a lot of times. I think
we take the dial for granted, but it's got lot of information that needs to be conveyed on a small
scale. You need to be able to get the, the day of the week, the date of the month, the seconds,
the hours, and the minutes, and be able to legibly, read it in lots of different conditions.
And yet it has to look fantastic and be a beautiful piece of jewelry as well. So Rolex
has absolutely mastered that when you look at these dials, the, the hands and the markers
are 18 carat, yellow, gold that's so that they don't tarnish or become discolored over the years.
A lot of other companies certainly would just use a yellow color metal for the dial,
hands and markers, but Rolex, they really go all out there, solid 18 karat gold. The settings for
the rubies in this case are also 18 carat, yellow, gold. There's sort of a bezel type frame around
the rubies. So it does offset them from the rest of the dial and also holds them very securely.
I've never seen one come off and 30 years of doing this. So a you can rest assured that you
can wear this watch with a lot of confidence day-to-day but the background on the dial
in this case as mother of Pearl, and we've talked about mother of Pearl before, it's a natural
material, it's the lining of the oyster shell, the same type of oyster that produces pearls.
So when they culture pearls, what they do is they open these oysters and place an
irritant inside there that gets covered in a substance called knacker. That the
oyster secretes though, the edge of that oyster shell is also covered in Necker. And so when
the oyster is, has died and they are ready to harvest that it's really quite Chancy. Cause you
never know what's going to be inside there. What that mother Pearl will look like. So there are
just like mining, natural gemstones, where you might mind, you know, thousands and thousands
of gyms to find the one that is the perfect combination of color and clarity in the same way
with the mother of Pearl, you don't know what the colors are going to be. Now, some other companies,
they do die the mother of Pearl to make it a certain color, but Rolex never does that.
What you're seeing is the natural color of the mother of Pearl. And when you look, look at it,
you can see that it has different colors. The colors that are fairly common in the mother of
Pearl world are white, sort of a dark purplish, Blackish color and pink, but Rolex doesn't die.
There's so when you see the flashes of color, you'll see greens, blues, purples,
pink, just beautiful colors as you look at this and no two are alike because it's
a natural material that can look like swirls of clouds or swirls of water, or, even the sky with
different types of Sunray effects in it. It's just really beautiful. And you'll never see another
one just like yours when you're wearing one of these watches. So the mother of Pearl itself,
is then adorned with these natural rubies. There are synthetic rubies out there that are lab grown.
Rolex would never do such a thing. They have a, an army of gemologists to make sure that every
gemstone they send on their watches is exactly the way you would want it. So these are natural
rubies dug out of the ground. They're incredibly, well-matched one of the big jobs of a gemologist
in sorting through the products that they get for a company like Rolex is the proper matching
of the gyms. And when you look at these, you'll see they are perfectly evenly, the same color,
the same level of saturation of the color. The clarity is spot on. They're just really beautiful.
I'd encourage you order one of these watches up when you get it. Get a jeweler's loupe, I'm sure
you can get one on Amazon for 10 bucks these days and be able to really enjoy the dial of your watch
and really look at how the meticulous the printing is on the mother of Pearl and how meticulous
the gym setting is and how beautiful the variations of color in the mother of Pearl are.
So on these watches, they are a beautiful match set for his and hers we talked about,
but we have lots of other choices. If you like one of his and hers watch and the mother of
Pearl Ruby, isn't exactly your taste. That's great. We have loads of other choices for you.
Give us a call at SwissWatchExpo. We can point you towards the watches that are really going
to be a nice set for you. But also take a look at the mother of Pearl. If you just put it in
the search bar on Swiss watch expo, just type in mother of Pearl or MOP, it's often abbreviated.
You'll see everything that we've gotten. It's got this particular kind of dial on it
and definitely get something really interesting and unusual for yourself. One that's a,
one of a kind that no one else will ever have the same one.