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<small>[[Reference:day-date|Day-Date]] › '''19018'''</small>

[[File:Ref 19018 hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold, side profile showing the fluted bezel and integrated bracelet. Sotheby's, case 9,723,331|Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold, side profile showing the fluted bezel and integrated bracelet. Sotheby's, case 9,723,331]]

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The 19018 is the quartz Day-Date. In 1977, after five years of in-house development, Rolex answered the Beta 21 consortium quartz it had used at the start of the decade with a movement of its own and an entirely new case to hold it. The Oysterquartz put the caliber 5055, a thermocompensated quartz good to about ±0.7 seconds a day, inside an angular, beveled case with an integrated bracelet, while keeping the round fluted bezel and the 36mm footprint of the Oyster. The 19018 is the yellow-gold Day-Date version. It is the most accurate Day-Date Rolex ever built and one of the rarest, gold-only and made in small numbers across a 25-year run.

[[File:Ref 19018 hero.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold with fluted bezel and angular integrated bracelet|The 19018 in yellow gold: fluted bezel on the angular integrated Oysterquartz case and bracelet. Photo: Grand Caliber]]

==Core facts==

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==Dial map==

[[File:Ref 19018 detail.webp~~|thumb|right|250px~~|alt=Rolex 19018 dial close-up reading Oysterquartz Day-Date|The dial signature reads "Oysterquartz Day-Date"; fluted bezel and "T SWISS MADE T" tritium, Italian day disc. Photo: Watch Collecting Lifestyle]]

File:Ref 19018 detail.webp|alt=Rolex 19018 dial close-up reading Oysterquartz Day-Date|The dial signature reads "Oysterquartz Day-Date"; fluted bezel and "T SWISS MADE T" tritium, Italian day disc. Photo: Watch Collecting Lifestyle

File:Ref 19018 dial-detail-full.webp|alt=Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold, full dial and case view|The full dial and case view, fluted bezel and champagne dial signed "Oysterquartz Day-Date." Photo: Grand Caliber

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The 19018 carried the standard Day-Date dial range adapted to the quartz movement. Champagne and silver with applied gold markers are the common pair, with Roman-numeral, diamond-hour-marker and occasional special-order dials behind them. The day disc follows Day-Date practice and was supplied in a range of languages to order, so the spelled-out day at twelve varies with the market an example was sold into. Because the reference is gold-only and was made in small numbers, the surviving dial range is narrower than the mechanical 1803 or 18038. The [[Reference:1803|1803]] entry carries the deep President dial taxonomy.

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The Oysterquartz Day-Date reaches the major houses in small numbers, and published results are thin. Phillips sold a diamond-set yellow-gold 19038, nicknamed the "Egyptian," at the Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE in May 2017 for CHF 26,250, comfortably past its CHF 10,000–20,000 estimate. Standard 19018 examples are catalogued more quietly. Sotheby's offered one in Hong Kong in July 2020, case 9,723,331 from about 1986 with its guarantee, manual and box, at HKD 90,000–140,000, and the same watch came back in a Fine Watches sale in February 2022 at GBP 10,000–15,000. Neither Sotheby's result has been published.

The reference's standout result carries celebrity provenance. Bonhams sold a champagne-dial 19018/19000 from Sir Michael Caine's own collection at its March 2022 "Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection" sale in London — lot 111, catalogued as the watch Caine bought new shortly after the Oysterquartz launched in the late 1970s, his third Rolex, and wore as Lawrence Jamieson in ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (1988); a 1982 Steve Schapiro photograph documents him wearing it at his Los Angeles home. Against an estimate of GBP 8,000–12,000 it hammered at GBP 125,250, a new auction record for the model and roughly five times what a comparable example without the provenance would bring.

Condition of the soft 18k gold integrated bracelet is the value driver, since a stretched or over-polished Oysterquartz bracelet cannot be swapped for a fresh President. Full sets and unpolished cases carry the premium.

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! configuration

! result

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| March 2022

| Bonhams, Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, lot 111

| 19018/19000, champagne dial, ex-Michael Caine, worn in ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (1988)

| GBP 125,250 (est. GBP 8,000–12,000; auction record for the model)

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| May 2017

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* ''The Vintage Rolex Field Manual'' — Colin A. White, Morning Tundra

* [http://www.oysterquartz.net/faq.htm Oysterquartz.net, "Oysterquartz.net — reference and movement archive", Oysterquartz.net]

* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27705/lot/111/sir-michael-caines-rolex-an-18k-gold-quartz-calendar-bracelet-watch-oysterquartz-day-date-ref-1901819000-circa-1979/ Bonhams, "Sir Michael Caine's Rolex — Oysterquartz Day-Date Ref. 19018/19000 — Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, lot 111", Bonhams, 2022-03-02]

* [https://www.phillips.com/detail/rolex/CH080117/136 Phillips, "Rolex Ref. 19038 Day-Date Oysterquartz 'Egyptian' — The Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE, lot 136", Phillips, 2017-05-12]

* [https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/rolex-oyster-quartz-day-date-reference-19018-a Sotheby's, "Rolex Oyster Quartz Day-Date, Reference 19018 — Important Watches, Hong Kong, lot 2118", Sotheby's, 2020-07-11]

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+[[File:Ref 19018 hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold, side profile showing the fluted bezel and integrated bracelet. Sotheby's, case 9,723,331|Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold, side profile showing the fluted bezel and integrated bracelet. Sotheby's, case 9,723,331]]
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 The 19018 is the quartz Day-Date. In 1977, after five years of in-house development, Rolex answered the Beta 21 consortium quartz it had used at the start of the decade with a movement of its own and an entirely new case to hold it. The Oysterquartz put the caliber 5055, a thermocompensated quartz good to about ±0.7 seconds a day, inside an angular, beveled case with an integrated bracelet, while keeping the round fluted bezel and the 36mm footprint of the Oyster. The 19018 is the yellow-gold Day-Date version. It is the most accurate Day-Date Rolex ever built and one of the rarest, gold-only and made in small numbers across a 25-year run.
-[[File:Ref 19018 hero.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold with fluted bezel and angular integrated bracelet|The 19018 in yellow gold: fluted bezel on the angular integrated Oysterquartz case and bracelet. Photo: Grand Caliber]]
 ==Core facts==
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 ==Dial map==
-[[File:Ref 19018 detail.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex 19018 dial close-up reading Oysterquartz Day-Date|The dial signature reads "Oysterquartz Day-Date"; fluted bezel and "T SWISS MADE T" tritium, Italian day disc. Photo: Watch Collecting Lifestyle]]
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="180">
+File:Ref 19018 detail.webp|alt=Rolex 19018 dial close-up reading Oysterquartz Day-Date|The dial signature reads "Oysterquartz Day-Date"; fluted bezel and "T SWISS MADE T" tritium, Italian day disc. Photo: Watch Collecting Lifestyle
+File:Ref 19018 dial-detail-full.webp|alt=Rolex Oysterquartz Day-Date 19018 in yellow gold, full dial and case view|The full dial and case view, fluted bezel and champagne dial signed "Oysterquartz Day-Date." Photo: Grand Caliber
+</gallery>
 The 19018 carried the standard Day-Date dial range adapted to the quartz movement. Champagne and silver with applied gold markers are the common pair, with Roman-numeral, diamond-hour-marker and occasional special-order dials behind them. The day disc follows Day-Date practice and was supplied in a range of languages to order, so the spelled-out day at twelve varies with the market an example was sold into. Because the reference is gold-only and was made in small numbers, the surviving dial range is narrower than the mechanical 1803 or 18038. The [[Reference:1803|1803]] entry carries the deep President dial taxonomy.
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 The Oysterquartz Day-Date reaches the major houses in small numbers, and published results are thin. Phillips sold a diamond-set yellow-gold 19038, nicknamed the "Egyptian," at the Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE in May 2017 for CHF 26,250, comfortably past its CHF 10,000–20,000 estimate. Standard 19018 examples are catalogued more quietly. Sotheby's offered one in Hong Kong in July 2020, case 9,723,331 from about 1986 with its guarantee, manual and box, at HKD 90,000–140,000, and the same watch came back in a Fine Watches sale in February 2022 at GBP 10,000–15,000. Neither Sotheby's result has been published.
+The reference's standout result carries celebrity provenance. Bonhams sold a champagne-dial 19018/19000 from Sir Michael Caine's own collection at its March 2022 "Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection" sale in London — lot 111, catalogued as the watch Caine bought new shortly after the Oysterquartz launched in the late 1970s, his third Rolex, and wore as Lawrence Jamieson in ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (1988); a 1982 Steve Schapiro photograph documents him wearing it at his Los Angeles home. Against an estimate of GBP 8,000–12,000 it hammered at GBP 125,250, a new auction record for the model and roughly five times what a comparable example without the provenance would bring.
 Condition of the soft 18k gold integrated bracelet is the value driver, since a stretched or over-polished Oysterquartz bracelet cannot be swapped for a fresh President. Full sets and unpolished cases carry the premium.
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 ! configuration
 ! result
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+| March 2022
+| Bonhams, Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, lot 111
+| 19018/19000, champagne dial, ex-Michael Caine, worn in ''Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (1988)
+| GBP 125,250 (est. GBP 8,000–12,000; auction record for the model)
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 | May 2017
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 * ''The Vintage Rolex Field Manual'' — Colin A. White, Morning Tundra
 * [http://www.oysterquartz.net/faq.htm Oysterquartz.net, "Oysterquartz.net — reference and movement archive", Oysterquartz.net]
+* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27705/lot/111/sir-michael-caines-rolex-an-18k-gold-quartz-calendar-bracelet-watch-oysterquartz-day-date-ref-1901819000-circa-1979/ Bonhams, "Sir Michael Caine's Rolex — Oysterquartz Day-Date Ref. 19018/19000 — Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, lot 111", Bonhams, 2022-03-02]
 * [https://www.phillips.com/detail/rolex/CH080117/136 Phillips, "Rolex Ref. 19038 Day-Date Oysterquartz 'Egyptian' — The Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE, lot 136", Phillips, 2017-05-12]
 * [https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-watches/rolex-oyster-quartz-day-date-reference-19018-a Sotheby's, "Rolex Oyster Quartz Day-Date, Reference 19018 — Important Watches, Hong Kong, lot 2118", Sotheby's, 2020-07-11]