The Rolex Day-Date 36 128239 white Roman dial is the white gold reading of the classical President: applied white gold Roman numerals on a white ground, inside a 36 mm 18k white gold case with a fluted white gold bezel and the President bracelet. Where the yellow gold versions set warm numerals against the dial, here the markers are the same cool metal as the case, so the face reads as a single tone until the light moves across it. Day spelled out at 12, date magnified at 3, no stones anywhere on the watch.

Case & Movement Specs

• Reference: 128239
• Case: 36 mm, 18k white gold
• Bezel: fluted, 18k white gold
• Dial: white with applied white gold Roman numeral hour markers, no stones
• Day display: spelled out in full at 12 o’clock
• Date: Cyclops-magnified window at 3 o’clock
• Crystal: sapphire with anti-reflective treatment
• Bracelet: President, concealed Crownclasp
• Water resistance: 100 m
• Movement: clone Cal. 3255 automatic (super clone) or Japanese automatic (A Grade)
• Power reserve: 70 hours (clone Cal. 3255)

White gold markers on a white ground leave a factory almost nothing to hide behind. A numeral seated a fraction proud, a foot hole filled unevenly, a character set off its radius: on a dark or stone-set dial those slips vanish, here they catch the eye under a desk lamp. This is the dial to ask for a macro QC photo of before shipping.

Why the Rolex Day-Date 36 128239 white Roman dial works

Three Roman-numeral Presidents sit in our 36 mm row, and metal is what splits them: this is the white gold one, the other two are yellow gold. White gold reads like steel from two metres away, so the watch gives you the formality of Roman numerals without announcing the metal to a room. On the super clone that dial sits over a clone Cal. 3255 with a 70-hour power reserve, and how the clone Cal. 3255 is finished goes through the rotor, the barrel and the day-date jump. Every other dial for this case is listed in our Day-Date collection.

Other versions of this model in stock: Rolex Day-Date 36 128239 silver diamond dial, Rolex Day-Date 128348RBR diamond bezel super clone and Rolex Day-Date 36 128239 silver dial.

Rolex Day-Date 36 128239 white Roman dial Replica FAQ

Is the 128239 white Roman dial white gold or steel?

White gold: Rolex has never built a Day-Date in steel, and 128239 is the 18k white gold reference at 36 mm. A fluted bezel on a white-metal Day-Date is always a precious metal, which is the opposite of a Datejust, where white metal usually means Oystersteel.

How is the Roman numeral spacing checked on a 128239?

Start from VI and IX, the only two numerals the cross axis still has: XII is absent because the day aperture sits at the top of the dial, and III is absent because the date window takes three o’clock. Then check the gaps on either side of those two openings, since uneven spacing around an aperture is where a weak dial gives itself away.