The Rolex Day-Date 36 118139 blue dial sets a blue sunburst face in a 36 mm 18k white gold case and finishes it on a matching blue crocodile-embossed strap, so the colour runs from the centre of the dial to the buckle. The blue deepens from a bright centre toward an almost navy edge as the sunburst turns against the light, and that gradient is the one thing the flat blue dials elsewhere in the catalogue do not give. Blue sits between the formality of silver and the statement of green or meteorite, and at 36 mm the case keeps the Presidential proportions that defined the collection for its first five decades.

Technical Overview

• Reference: 118139 (dial variant -0026)
• Model: Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36
• Case diameter: 36 mm
• Case material: 18k white gold
• Bezel: fluted, 18k white gold
• Dial: blue sunburst with applied white-gold baton markers
• Day display: full day-of-week window at 12 o’clock
• Date display: Cyclops-magnified at 3 o’clock
• Crystal: sapphire
• Strap: blue crocodile-embossed leather
• Movement: clone Cal. 3155 automatic (super clone, $849) or Japanese automatic (A-grade, $349)
• Power reserve: 48 hours
• Water resistance: 100 m

Blue dials on white gold benefit from the cool undertone of the metal. Yellow gold tends to fight blue visually, but white gold complements it, allowing the dial color to present without competing warmth from the surrounding case.

Rolex Day-Date 36 118139 blue dial: movement and calendar

The day and date mechanisms advance through an instantaneous jump at midnight. Both calendar windows switch together, driven by spring-loaded levers that release stored energy in a single moment, which prevents the half-changed day name that gradual-change movements show late in the evening. The 36 mm case architecture asks for tighter tolerances than the 40 mm references because the same complication set has to fit a smaller movement diameter. In the super clone that movement is a clone Cal. 3155 with a 48-hour power reserve, the 118xxx generation calibre rather than the 70-hour clone Cal. 3255 fitted to the 128xxx Day-Dates. EW and BP are the factories behind most Day-Date clones on the market, and our Day-Date President replica guide covers how their cases, dials and calendar discs differ.

What Sets It Apart

Blue is among the most requested Day-Date dial colours after silver and champagne, but it carries a different mood than either: silver reads corporate, champagne reads warm, blue reads confident without turning casual. Keeping the case, bezel and markers in white gold holds the whole palette cool, which is a deliberate contrast to the blue-on-yellow-gold combinations other references offer. The matching blue strap is the detail that separates it from the rest of our 36 mm line-up, where the silver 118139 sits on black leather and the 128xxx references sit on President bracelets. Browse the wider Day-Date collection to compare case metals at the same diameter.

Other versions of this model in stock: Rolex Day-Date 36 118138 green dial, Rolex Day-Date 36 118139 silver dial and Rolex Day-Date 36 118135 black dial.

Rolex Day-Date 36 118139 blue dial Replica FAQ

Is the 118139 blue dial Day-Date white gold or platinum?

It is white gold: the 118139 is the 18k white gold reference of the 36 mm Day-Date, while the platinum Day-Dates are numbered 118206 at 36 mm and 228206 at 40 mm and are the ones that carry the ice-blue dial. This one reproduces the white gold version, so the case, fluted bezel and applied markers all read in the same cool shade.

What is the difference between the A Grade and the super clone 118139 blue dial?

The movement and the price: the A Grade at $349 runs a Japanese automatic, the super clone at $849 runs a clone Cal. 3155 with a 48-hour power reserve. Case, dial, bezel and strap are built the same way on both, so the choice is about what is turning inside.