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BigAppleBill's recent acquisition, a Rolex Day-Date with a sodalite dial, highlights how certain watches transcend their photographic representation, revealing their true allure only in person. His post underscores the unique appeal of stone dials, particularly how the sodalite's royal blue hue interacts with different attire. This piece explores the captivating aesthetics that made BigAppleBill unable to resist this particular timepiece.
I wear a lot of blue too!
Is it a quartz or marble?
I understand the diamond dial thing, I almost plunged for one myself (although less obvious at quick glance) but in the end opted for without. But that dial, what is it?
Sodalite (SOH-də-lyte) is a tectosilicate mineral with the formula Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2, with royal blue varieties widely used as an ornamental gemstone. Although massive sodalite samples are opaque, crystals are usually transparent to translucent. Sodalite is a member of the sodalite group with hauyne, nosean, lazurite and tugtupite. First discovered by Europeans in 1811 in the Ilimaussaq intrusive complex in Greenland, sodalite did not become important as an ornamental stone until 1891 when vast
There are some very cool Daytona dials out there. Even more for the Day Dates. I was just getting into the stone dials several years ago when the market for them took off (thanks to Philips and some others). Ultimately I was too slow or didn’t have enough conviction.
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