Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo.
Today, I would love to showcase perhaps the most elegant dial you are going to find on
any sport model Rolex anywhere.
This is a very special piece we have here today.
This is a solid 18-carat yellow gold Rolex Yachtmaster, a midsize, but particularly what
makes this watch fascinating is the dial .not a particularly rare dial by Rolex standards,
but it is a very beautiful one.
This is a Serti dial Mother of Pearl version of the Yachtmaster.
And what I love is that this is the mid-size version of it.
This is an incredibly versatile watch and incredibly elegant dress piece and just all
in all beautiful, which is kind of what I feel about all Rolex mother of pearl.
So let's go ahead and grab this beautiful thing.
And now the Serti dial comes from the French word, which means set.
For people who don't know, and that refers to the fact that it will come set with both
diamonds and gems traditionally sapphires, but also rubies can be found on some other
models as well.
This is a sapphire model, which I happen to prefer.
The contrast.
Great, because you already have the red writing of Yachtmaster here on this beautiful mother
of pearl dial.
I like blue.
It gives it a slightly extra added little cold sort of color element to it.
And I think it looks fantastic against yellow gold in particular.
Now the Serti dials, as some people may be familiar with, were found traditionally on
Rolex sport models, the Submariner, and the GMT most traditionally.
And that's going back quite a while now with the Yachtmaster though, I do love that they
incorporated that into this line because it's considered to be sort of a dressier more elegant
version of those sport model watches.
The Serti dial definitely fits right in there with that brand DNA.
And the one thing that they added to make it even more elegant than its GMT and Submariner
counterparts is, of course, the addition of the factory mother of pearl here too, which
goes great with Serti.
I think it's great that they sort of held off on that until the Yachtmaster came out.
And it looks fantastic on this.
It's available in both 18-carat gold and two-tone as well.
But of course, I happen to prefer it in all 18-carat gold, because this is just an absolutely
marvelous piece here.
The mother of pearl on this one, as you know, everyone's gonna be different, but I do love
that this one is almost divided into sections.
If you get a closeup of it, you have more of a green, upper and then sort of a middle
strip, which is more of a pearlescent white.
And then, of course, you've got more greens and purples here at the bottom.
The mother of pearl is gonna be different for everyone.
Rolex doesn't do anything that's bad.
As far as I have to say, I feel like all of their mother of pearl are brilliant in one
way or another.
But that's something that you're absolutely going to get out of this piece as well as
another signature that I think goes great against the shininess of this mother of pearl
is the sort of grainy finish you get on the bezel and that's something that's gonna be
found on all Yachtmasters.
It's definitely a signature of this line, but I think it looks great, particularly against
mother of pearl, just because of how shiny and reflective the mother of Pearl is that
you get a much more brushed finish, not only with the edges and the outer links of this
watch but as well as with the with this bi-rotating bezel here with it too.
What I love about the Yachtmaster as well is that for the ladies, unless you like wearing
particularly huge watches, this 35-millimeter and a few 29-millimeters are gonna be the
only smaller sizes or really female-appropriate sizes for most people.
Anyway, so if you really love that sapphire and diamond combo on the Serti dials, because
they only make it in sport watches, unless you like wearing a huge oversized piece, there
are not a lot of options out there, but this is absolutely one of them, particularly if
you like wearing a sporty watch without just an absolutely gigantic piece of metal that's
on your wrist.
So while this is not by any means a limited production watch or a super rare model, they
did not make a ton of these.
And especially with this combination and with this reference being discontinued for so long,
there are not many incredible examples out there.
And this is definitely an incredible example of a model from around the beginning of the
Yachtmaster line.
This is a '96 model, but it's in absolutely pristine condition.
And as you know, with everything you get from us gonna be completely serviced to factory
specs.
So you're gonna get a piece that is going to shine very, very bright.
And of course, we have a variety of other models, especially some less shiny and diamond
set ones for people with maybe a little more subtle taste.
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