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These are some macro snaps I’ve taken of the diamond dial of my DateJust. It really does bring out the detail of the diamonds and their settings.

Considering their diameter, they would actually be penetrating into the dial itself. Otherwise, it’s shape would not be that of a typical diamond and as such would not be able to reflect light as effectively. In essence, to the naked eye they appear as small ‘diamonds’ mounted on the dial – but in reality, a large portion is hidden underneath the settings.

While it is typically expected for diamonds to be set inside platinum claws, I believe Rolex has simply used Everose gold in their settings (75% gold, 23% copper, and 2% platinum alloy) for aesthetic reasons.

I was also able to capture one of the ’security’ features on the crystal. The Rolex coronet is laser engraved in, and takes just the right angle to photograph.

Here’s an excerpt from one of the Rolex catalogues regarding the quality and sourcing of their diamonds,

When visiting Singapore a couple months back I took my DateJust in for a regulation. Since then I have kept to the practice of setting my watch on the first of any month that has 31 days, and this allows me to ‘run’ the watch till the next setting 61 days later.

As such my DateJust was last set on the 1st of October 2009, making it 40 days till today. I was randomly taking a look at the wwp.greenwichmeantime.com site and realised that my watch had only gained a total of 2.5 seconds till today!

This is quite incredible as it means the watch has only been gaining 0.0625 seconds each day, on average. While I have not been keeping an eye on its daily variance, over a period of 40 days this is pretty fabulous.

My entire collection of Omega watches comprising of four brand new purchases, at the time, and another four near-vintage Speedmasters could never reach this level of accuracy. They did, at best, at most about +2 seconds per day.

My friend Howard was invited to the Patek Philippe World Collection Preview Dinner, and his Jewelers arranged for him to not only sport a pair of Rose Gold Calatrava cuff-links but also this gorgeous Celestial.

Not only is it two-tone, Rose Gold and PT950 but it is definitely a piece to fly ‘under the radar’. The finishing of the movement is quite exquisite, as always.

While the Celestial not only sports an incredible price tag (£180,000) it is also, quite obviously, produced in very limited quantity. Only eight such pieces were on display at the event, or so I gather.

Many thanks to Howard for linking me to the splendid photos, of what must have been quite an evening.

About

For the past couple years I lived in the UK, reading in BEng (Hons) Electronic and Computer Engineering at The University of Leeds and MSc (Dist) Mechatronics at King's College London.

My interests and hobbies include writing with Fountain Pens on various ink and paper, Swiss and German wristwatches, authoring articles in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering, and Gundam modeling.

I have been following much Anime over the years as well as TV Shows with the likes of 24, Smallville, Dexter, and NCIS becoming favourites.