Final yr’s emoji Day-Date and celebration dial OP imply all of us have carte blanche for something our hearts want on this round-up. I bought swept up within the try-and-be-as-weird-as-possible method and dreamt up some goofy colourful enamel heart-shaped gem-set novelties. My colleague TanTan introduced me again right down to earth with a extra affordable (however nonetheless sufficient of a fantasy to appease me) concept. How a couple of new tackle “seaside” Daytona dials. Why not remake pastel beachy colours and put them into OP instances? On bracelets. Clearly.
I say these 2024 seaside dials ought to be near the unique idea and made from stone, TanTan needs pastel coloured lacquer dials, however that is my “prediction” and so I’m making govt choices. We’re going OG turquoise, yellow mom of pearl, pink mom of pearl, inexperienced chrysoprase/chalcedony. Okay, so the probabilities of this occurring are slim however they aren’t unimaginable. And so if we’re shopping for into this fantasy, let’s simply go all the best way “seaside,” and make these in white gold.
This may be “new” for Rolex, no stone dial OP watches have been made. The trendy OP is a comparatively new Rolex mannequin and was seemingly created to exist as a extra reasonably priced choice, entry degree let’s imagine. However there’s precedent to my prediction! A few of the rarest classic stone dials are present in Datejusts, which was a equally low-market mannequin in comparison with the Day-Date on the time.
