The Rolex Day-Date 36 128235 rose diamond dial matches a stone-set pink dial to an 18 ct Everose case and President bracelet, so the warm tone runs from the centre of the dial out to the clasp without a break. Eight round stones mark the hours and two baguettes replace the markers at 6 and 9, which keeps the monochrome reading from going flat: the stones are the only cold element on the watch. The -0009 dial sits in the current 36 mm generation, where 128235 is the Everose reference and 128238 the yellow gold one.

Technical Overview

• Reference: 128235-0009
• Model: Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36
• Case diameter: 36 mm
• Case material: 18 ct Everose gold
• Bezel: fluted, 18 ct Everose gold
• Dial: rose sunburst, 8 round stone indexes, 2 baguette stones at 6 and 9
• Day display: fully spelled at 12 o’clock
• Date display: Cyclops-magnified window at 3 o’clock
• Crystal: sapphire with Cyclops magnification
• Bracelet: President three-piece link in Everose gold with concealed Crownclasp
• Movement: clone Cal. 3255 automatic (super clone, $849) or Japanese automatic (A-grade, $349)
• Power reserve: 70 hours
• Water resistance: 30 m

Tone-on-tone dials ask more of the finishing than contrasting ones, because any mismatch between the dial pink and the case pink shows immediately at the rehaut. Here the dial is brushed from the centre outward while the case flanks are polished, so the two surfaces separate by texture rather than by colour.

Rolex Day-Date 36 128235 rose diamond dial: dial and stone setting

The eight round stones are set in polished collets that rise above the dial, each catching light independently of the sunburst beneath. The two baguettes at 6 and 9 are longer and flat-cut, so they read as bars rather than points and give the lower half of the dial a visual anchor that a purely round-set dial lacks. The hands and the applied Rolex coronet are finished in the same pink tone as the case, which means the only contrast on the whole watch comes from the stones, the day aperture and the date window. Factories such as EW and BP assemble the Day-Date clones in circulation, and our rundown of the Everose Day-Date 36 sets out what to look at on the gold work, the collets and the calendar change.

What Sets It Apart

A monochrome watch trades glance-legibility for cohesion, and that trade only works when the metal has enough depth to show its own finishing. Everose has it: brushed case sides, a polished fluted bezel and a flat dial plane read as three different surfaces in the same colour. The super clone carries this with a clone Cal. 3255 and a 70-hour power reserve, the current-generation calibre, while the A-grade at $349 keeps the identical case, bracelet and stone-set dial and runs a Japanese automatic instead. The cooler counterpoint in the Day-Date collection is the silver dial 128239 in white gold, where both the dial and the metal are kept cold instead of matched warm.

Other versions of this model in stock: Rolex Day-Date 36 128235 chocolate ruby dial, Rolex Day-Date 36 128235 white dial and Rolex Day-Date 36 128235 chocolate dial.

Rolex Day-Date 36 128235 rose diamond dial Replica FAQ

Is the 128235-0009 dial rose or chocolate?

It is rose: a pink sunburst dial very close in tone to the Everose case around it. The chocolate dials in this collection are clearly brown and sit on both Everose and yellow gold cases, so colour alone separates them at a glance.

How do you tell a genuine 128235 rose diamond dial from a fake?

Start at the stone collets and the day change. On the genuine the eight collets are identical in height and the day name snaps over in a single step at midnight; a weak clone shows uneven collets and a day disc that creeps over several minutes. Our super clone uses the clone Cal. 3255 for that instantaneous change, and the stones are set, not printed.