Just because: Rolex Daytona, tropical ‘italian chocolate’ dial
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 6 July 2010
Dear Lord, Jake’s Rolex Watch Blog has done it again. Time and again, Jake comes up trumps with just the most beautiful Rolex photography the web has to offer.
So, just because last Friday he showcased this little beauty, we couldn’t resist bringing it to your attention. Feast your eyes on this stunning Rolex Daytona with a faded ‘tropical’ dial. Now, for the uninitiated, you should know that this dial wasn’t this gorgeous brown colour when it left the factory. These models are known as ‘tropical’ because – through a fault in the manufacturing process – in humid conditions, the black finish turned this colour over time.
In the same way that we don’t value patina just for the sake of it, we’re not crazy about all tropical dials. Some fade well, others just look utterly wrong. But this beauty? Well, just look at it! Gorgeous. Better still, head on over to Jake’s and check out the full post. He also includes an amusing shot of a bar of chocolate which perfectly matches the colours of the Daytona.
Hats off, once again, to Jake!
Just because: Rolex Daytona, tropical ‘italian chocolate’ dial
Dear Lord, Jake’s Rolex Watch Blog has done it again. Time and again, Jake comes up trumps with just the most beautiful Rolex photography the web has to offer. So, just because last Friday he showcased this little beauty, we couldn’t resist bringing it to your attention. Feast your eyes on this stunning Rolex Daytona [...]
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A Prodigal July « The Prodigal Guide
1 August 2010
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A Paul Newman Daytona With Tropical Registers & Full Documentation: We’d Buy It Ourselves | watchist.com
23 July 2010
[...] The watch you see to the right is perfect. It’s more than perfect, really.? It’s a pristine Rolex Daytona Ref 6239, the archetypal Paul Newman reference as Julien Schaerer from Antiquorum told us here.? But, what makes this watch truly fantastic is the faded quality of the three registers, which could be referred to as a “tropical dial”. Think of a tropical dial as inverted patina, instead of something light becoming darker over time due to exposure to light, something dark becomes light.? They can also be called a “chocolate dial”.? A good, more extreme example of a tropical dial, a Prodigal one at that, can be seen here. [...]