After graduating at the age of 23, I received my first bonus after working, and asked a friend to buy me a Rolex gold watch from Hong Kong.
That was my first watch in my life. It accompanied me through many interesting people and events. It was also this watch that started my Rolex journey.
In the following years, every time I felt it was worth buying a watch to celebrate the results of each stage, I would go to the Rolex store for a look. As a result, I owned a blue-dial Submariner, a diamond-set Datejust… Until one year, I noticed the Rolex “Week” calendar watch worn by investment guru Buffett at his shareholders’ meeting.
I re-watched the documentary about Warren Buffett and discovered that Buffett has a special fondness for the Rolex DayDate series. He owns at least three Rolex DDs with different dials.
You should know that the price of this watch is relatively high in the Rolex watch series. Mr. Buffett is a person who advocates frugality all his life. He drives a second-hand car and eats a $3 breakfast. He was once worth hundreds of billions and used coupons to treat Bill Gates and Katharine Graham to dinner. But it is unexpected that he only loves Rolex gold watches. It may be because this watch represents the stability of his investment philosophy and the pursuit of long-term value.
The Rolex DD watch is famous for its weekday and date display function. Its official full name is Osyter Perpetual Day- Date .
These four simple words have clearly described the characteristics of this watch: waterproof, automatic, calendar, and day of the week.
In 1956, Rolex launched the Day-Date at the Baselworld Watch Fair . It say that the reason for launching the Day-Date at that time was that they had obtained a patent for the instantaneous jump of the calendar day, which could break the dilemma of dual calendar watch display at that time.
Day-Date abandoned the popular design of placing the calendar and day of the week side by side at 12 o’clock, moved the calendar to 3 o’clock, and expanded the day window into a long fan-shaped window at the top of the dial at 12 o’clock. This change made Day-Date the world’s first watch with both a calendar window and a full-written day of the week on the dial. Before this, the day of the week on dual-calendar watches was abbreviate.
For nearly 60 years since then, Day-Date has continued to use this classic design.
This year, the price of gold has skyrocketed, but Rolex watches have become the most inflation-resistant product among all watches. In addition to the annual increase in official prices, the prices in the secondary market are also very competitive. But watches are accessories after all, and they are buy purely for personal use. I like them. This green-dial rose gold DD I came across this time just complements my rose gold diary. It doesn’t have the grandeur and conspicuousness of a big gold watch…haha, no more words.
