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The 1807 belongs to a small group of textured 4-digit Day-Dates: the Florentine 1806, the bark 1807, and the Morellis 1811. These were a 1960s fashion, and Rolex let them go as taste returned to polished and fluted gold. Survivors are comparatively scarce and now wanted precisely because the texture is unusual. The bark itself outlasted the 4-digit era and returned on the 5-digit [[Reference:18078|18078]].

===A white gold, blue-dial example===

Christie's Dubai, sale 21097 (2022), lot 222, catalogued a white gold bark-finish 1807 with a blue dial. Every other documented example in this article's record is yellow gold with a champagne, silver, grey, or Havana-brown dial — this white gold/blue combination is not otherwise represented in the sources gathered so far and is flagged here rather than folded into the population description above.

==Auction record==

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 The 1807 belongs to a small group of textured 4-digit Day-Dates: the Florentine 1806, the bark 1807, and the Morellis 1811. These were a 1960s fashion, and Rolex let them go as taste returned to polished and fluted gold. Survivors are comparatively scarce and now wanted precisely because the texture is unusual. The bark itself outlasted the 4-digit era and returned on the 5-digit [[Reference:18078|18078]].
+===A white gold, blue-dial example===
+[[File:Ref 1807 white gold blue dial.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=White gold bark-finish 1807 with a blue dial|A white gold bark-finish example with a blue dial, Christie's lot photography]]
+Christie's Dubai, sale 21097 (2022), lot 222, catalogued a white gold bark-finish 1807 with a blue dial. Every other documented example in this article's record is yellow gold with a champagne, silver, grey, or Havana-brown dial — this white gold/blue combination is not otherwise represented in the sources gathered so far and is flagged here rather than folded into the population description above.
 ==Auction record==