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The 118238 is in a price-appreciation cycle post-discontinuation. The 2019 retirement set the supply floor, and the broader luxury-watch market cycle of 2020-2023 lifted prices across the modern Rolex sport-and-dress lineup. The 2025-2026 secondary market is settling above 2019 retail but below the 2021-2022 peak.

Individual Bonhams lots corroborate the diamond-set dial and bezel variants named above with case-specific detail rather than aggregated ranges. A circa-2004 example (case No. F092462, cal. 3155 movement No. 39450649) carries a sunburst silvered dial with diamond-set hour markers, a black outer minute track with Roman-numeral five-minute markers, and a diamond-set bezel; fitted to an 83208 President bracelet with a concealed folding clasp stamped AD7, it sold for £16,575 including premium. A circa-2009 Hong Kong lot (case No. V240060) carries a Jubilee champagne dial with round and baguette diamond-set indexes on the standard 36mm yellow gold case and full set of box, certificate, and swing tags, selling for HK$153,600 against a HK$110,000–200,000 estimate. Both case-number prefixes — F and V — fall inside the 2003-2004 and 2008-2009 serial windows given above, which matches each lot's own catalogued date.

==Special branches==

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* [https://www.sothebys.com/ Sotheby's editorial, "The Rolex Day-Date: A Complete Collector's Guide", Sotheby's]

* [https://www.puccipapaleo.com/bookstore/day-date/ ''Day-Date — The Presidential Rolex'' — Pucci Papaleo Editore, Spin Edizioni, 2015-05]

* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/28032/lot/152/rolex-an-18k-gold-diamond-set-automatic-calendar-bracelet-watch-day-date-ref-118238-circa-2004/ Bonhams auction lot, "Rolex, an 18k gold diamond-set automatic calendar bracelet watch, Day-Date, ref. 118238, circa 2004", Bonhams]

* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30008/lot/1331/rolex-or-day-date-ref118238-a-yellow-gold-bracelet-watch-with-jubilee-dial-diamond-set-indexes-day-and-date-circa-2009/ Bonhams Hong Kong auction lot, "Rolex, or, Day-Date, ref. 118238, a yellow gold bracelet watch with Jubilee dial, diamond-set indexes, day and date, circa 2009", Bonhams]

===Editorial and market===

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 The 118238 is in a price-appreciation cycle post-discontinuation. The 2019 retirement set the supply floor, and the broader luxury-watch market cycle of 2020-2023 lifted prices across the modern Rolex sport-and-dress lineup. The 2025-2026 secondary market is settling above 2019 retail but below the 2021-2022 peak.
+Individual Bonhams lots corroborate the diamond-set dial and bezel variants named above with case-specific detail rather than aggregated ranges. A circa-2004 example (case No. F092462, cal. 3155 movement No. 39450649) carries a sunburst silvered dial with diamond-set hour markers, a black outer minute track with Roman-numeral five-minute markers, and a diamond-set bezel; fitted to an 83208 President bracelet with a concealed folding clasp stamped AD7, it sold for £16,575 including premium. A circa-2009 Hong Kong lot (case No. V240060) carries a Jubilee champagne dial with round and baguette diamond-set indexes on the standard 36mm yellow gold case and full set of box, certificate, and swing tags, selling for HK$153,600 against a HK$110,000–200,000 estimate. Both case-number prefixes — F and V — fall inside the 2003-2004 and 2008-2009 serial windows given above, which matches each lot's own catalogued date.
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 * [https://www.sothebys.com/ Sotheby's editorial, "The Rolex Day-Date: A Complete Collector's Guide", Sotheby's]
 * [https://www.puccipapaleo.com/bookstore/day-date/ ''Day-Date — The Presidential Rolex'' — Pucci Papaleo Editore, Spin Edizioni, 2015-05]
+* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/28032/lot/152/rolex-an-18k-gold-diamond-set-automatic-calendar-bracelet-watch-day-date-ref-118238-circa-2004/ Bonhams auction lot, "Rolex, an 18k gold diamond-set automatic calendar bracelet watch, Day-Date, ref. 118238, circa 2004", Bonhams]
+* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30008/lot/1331/rolex-or-day-date-ref118238-a-yellow-gold-bracelet-watch-with-jubilee-dial-diamond-set-indexes-day-and-date-circa-2009/ Bonhams Hong Kong auction lot, "Rolex, or, Day-Date, ref. 118238, a yellow gold bracelet watch with Jubilee dial, diamond-set indexes, day and date, circa 2009", Bonhams]
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