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|description=The 218235 is the Everose Day-Date II — Rolex's fade-resistant pink gold on the only 41mm President, 2008-2015, caliber 3156. Fluted bezel, Everose President bracelet, and the chocolate Roman dial that defines the reference.

The 218235 is the Everose-gold Day-Date II, the 41 mm generation produced from 2008 until the 2015 transition to the Day-Date 40. It uses caliber 3156, a fluted Everose bezel, and an Everose President bracelet. Rolex introduced its Everose alloy in the 2000s; the archived model material identifies the 218235's case and bracelet as 18 ct Everose gold. Chocolate Roman dials are one documented configuration among several.

The 218235 is the warm-metal entry in the Day-Date II, the 2008 generation that took the President from 36mm to 41mm. Yellow gold is the [[Reference:218238|218238]], white gold the [[Reference:218239|218239]], platinum the [[Reference:218206|218206]] with its smooth bezel and ice-blue dial, and factory diamond bezels sit on the 218348 and 218349. Everose gets the same fluted bezel as the other gold references and the same caliber; the metal is the whole difference.

One point is easy to get wrong. The 41mm Everose did not replace the 36mm Everose. The [[Reference:118235|118235]] stayed in the catalogue until 2019, so for the whole life of the 218235 a buyer could walk into a dealer and choose between two Everose Presidents in two sizes. The Day-Date II was an addition to the range, and when it was dropped in 2015 the 36mm carried on. That makes the 218235 a seven-year window inside a much longer Everose run, and it is the only period in which the alloy was offered at this size.

The whole run falls in or near Rolex's random-serial era. The company moved to scrambled serial numbers catalogue-wide in 2010, and documented Everose examples carry random serials with warranty cards dated 2012, 2014 and 2015. Rolex has published no production figure for the reference, and none has surfaced from any other quarter, so the honest position is that the 218235 is uncommon relative to the yellow-gold 218238 without a number to put behind the word.

The 3156 is the movement specified for the Day-Date II references in the reviewed technical sources. It is related to the 3155 but was adapted for the larger case. Published specifications give 31 jewels, a 28,800 vph beat, about 48 hours of reserve, double quickset for day and date, and chronometer certification. The balance is Glucydur with Microstella regulating screws, the hairspring is the blue Parachrom, and the Paraflex shock system is fitted. Introduced with the generation in 2008, the 3156 was retired in 2015 and 2016 as the Day-Date 40 moved to the caliber 3255 and its 70-hour reserve.

One caveat for anyone reading listings. The 218235 is occasionally advertised with a caliber 3155, the 36mm movement. Every specification source for the reference gives the 3156, and a 3155 in a 41mm Day-Date II case would be the wrong movement for the case, so treat the claim as a listing error rather than a variant. The [[Reference:Movements]] page carries the caliber lineage, and the [[Reference:218238|218238]] entry covers the 3156 in more depth.

| the signature Everose pairing and the most recognised 218235

| the lightest of the plain dials

| factory baguette markers, the top of the standard-bezel range

| the warmest of the plain layouts

The published dial-code roster for the Day-Date II runs to seventeen codes across the whole generation, four of them on the 218235. At least five further Everose layouts are documented in the market, which means the roster is a useful floor rather than a complete list. Anyone working from the codes alone will conclude that dials such as the black Arabic do not exist, and they do.

The case is 41mm in 18k Everose, roughly 12.1mm thick, with a sapphire crystal, a Cyclops over the date and a Twinlock screw-down crown, rated to 100m. The bezel is fluted, the format the Day-Date has worn since the 4-digit era, and on Everose the fluting catches light in a warmer register than on yellow gold.

The 41 mm case has broader proportions than the 36 mm Day-Date references. The 2015 successor moved to the 40 mm Day-Date 40 case; size comparisons should be made from the individual case and wrist fit rather than from collector preference.

The 218235 wears the Everose President, the three-piece semi-circular-link bracelet scaled up to the 41mm head, with the concealed Crownclasp that shows only the coronet on the closed cover. In solid Everose it accounts for a large share of the watch's weight. As with any President, a clasp date code dates the bracelet rather than the watch head, and a bracelet can be older or newer than the case it is on. The cross-family detail sits on [[Reference:Bracelets]].

File:Ref 218235 baguette diamond.webp|alt=Rolex Day-Date II 218235 — Everose gold with the factory black baguette-diamond dial.|Factory black baguette-diamond dial, the top of the standard fluted-bezel range.

File:Ref 218235 pink diamond.webp|alt=Rolex Day-Date II 218235 — Everose gold with the factory pink diamond dial.|Factory pink diamond dial, catalogued as 218235-0008. Factory gem-setting carries a Rolex dial code; aftermarket stones do not.

 

==Market and auction record==

 

On the secondary market in 2026, plain factory-dial 218235s on the standard fluted bezel ask roughly USD 43,500 to 45,500, with the chocolate Roman at the upper end of that band. Factory baguette-diamond dials ask around USD 62,500. Rolex's own Certified Pre-Owned programme has carried an Everose 218235 at USD 50,750, which is the usual authorised-channel premium over the open market. Examples with aftermarket diamond dials, bezels and bracelets are asked at USD 65,000 to 68,000, and those figures should be read as the price of the stones rather than of the reference. Across the generation the Everose sits above the yellow-gold 218238 and below the platinum 218206.

* [[Reference:218239|Day-Date 218239]]: 2008–2015 — white gold Day-Date II.

* [[Reference:218238|Day-Date 218238]]: 2008–2015 — yellow gold Day-Date II.

* [[Reference:218206|Day-Date 218206]]: 2008–2015 — platinum Day-Date II.

* [[Reference:118235|Day-Date 118235]] — 2005–2019 — the 36mm Everose President