Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 116234 Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe to our channels for the best luxury watch content. Break out the cake, because the Rolex Datejust is about to turn 70. This Rolex Datejust 116234 in stainless steel and 18-karat white gold combines the best features of the 1945 original with Rolex's latest technology and luxury refinements. Notables from Chuck Yeager to Winston Churchill to Dwight Eisenhower have helped to keep the Datejust in the spotlight since its VE-era debut, but it's the masses of worldwide Rolex devotees who have made this model line the most important Rolex luxury reference of all time. VIPS have the "President"; let's consider the Datejust the "people's choice." This Rolex Datejust 116234 packs the same essential appeal as the first automatic watch with a date window, the 1945 Datejust. With a 100m water-resistant Oyster case and bracelet (Oyster in this instance) that scream "sports watch" and a stately metallic sunburst blue dial that whispers "tuxedo," this Datejust is ready to answer any occasion with élan and panache. A fluted bezel of 18-karat white gold sets the stage for a remarkably animated and detailed soleil-grained metallic blue dial. Applied white gold stick indexes are encircled by a subtle white "railroad" chapter ring with miniature inset Roman numeral hour markers. Despite its 36mm nominal width, this Rolex Datejust leverages the broad shoulders of the Oyster case to wear and present like a conventional 40mm watch when on the wrist. The Oy