Rolex Day-Date 'Walnut' ladies a good dive watch was

a good dive watch was hard to find

Like all Mark II models

and a page in the history of Vintage Rolex for certain

including a quickset date and a sapphire crystal

quite the opposite from the men's market

Rolex Day-Date 'Walnut' ladies a good dive watch wasFew watches make a statement like a solid gold Rolex. This anachronistic blend of technical design and functionality with a precious metal casing material is a polarizing one, and depending on how its worn (and indeed, by whom), can send very different signals and we'll just leave it at that. So called five digit Day Dates (reference variants with five digits) are a quintessential staple of the Neo Vintage era. These models showed up in the late 70s