Reference:18028: Difference between revisions

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The smooth bezel pairs most naturally with a clean dial, and the common 18028 is a champagne or silvered dial with applied baton or stick markers, the dressiest and most discreet face in the line. Beyond that the 18028 takes the full 5-digit Day-Date dial menu: Roman-numeral, mother-of-pearl, diamond-index and the special dials. It is the special dials that carry the reference. Stone dials such as onyx and bloodstone, lacquered Stella colours like turquoise, and dégradé dials with diamond markers all turn up on the smooth case, and they are where an 18028 leaves the everyday band behind. The deep dial taxonomy that spans the President line sits on the [[Reference:1803|1803]] entry; on the 18028 the dial~~, not the bezel,~~ is the story.

The smooth bezel pairs most naturally with a clean dial, and the common 18028 is a champagne or silvered dial with applied baton or stick markers, the dressiest and most discreet face in the line. Beyond that the 18028 takes the full 5-digit Day-Date dial menu: Roman-numeral, mother-of-pearl, diamond-index and the special dials. It is the special dials that carry the reference. Stone dials such as onyx and bloodstone, lacquered Stella colours like turquoise, and dégradé dials with diamond markers all turn up on the smooth case, and they are where an 18028 leaves the everyday band behind. The deep dial taxonomy that spans the President line sits on the [[Reference:1803|1803]] entry; on the 18028 the dial is the story.

==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown==

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==Bracelets, end links, and clasps==

The 18028 wears the President bracelet, reference 8385, with the 55B end-links, the concealed Crownclasp and the solid links of the 5-digit era. There is no documented Jubilee or Oyster fitment; the smooth-bezel Day-Date shipped on the President like its siblings. As with any President, a clasp date code dates the bracelet ~~rather~~ than the head, and the cross-family detail sits on [[Reference:Bracelets]].

The 18028 wears the President bracelet, reference 8385, with the 55B end-links, the concealed Crownclasp and the solid links of the 5-digit era. There is no documented Jubilee or Oyster fitment; the smooth-bezel Day-Date shipped on the President like its siblings. As with any President, a clasp date code dates the bracelet, which may be older or newer than the head, and the cross-family detail sits on [[Reference:Bracelets]].

==Special branches==

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-The smooth bezel pairs most naturally with a clean dial, and the common 18028 is a champagne or silvered dial with applied baton or stick markers, the dressiest and most discreet face in the line. Beyond that the 18028 takes the full 5-digit Day-Date dial menu: Roman-numeral, mother-of-pearl, diamond-index and the special dials. It is the special dials that carry the reference. Stone dials such as onyx and bloodstone, lacquered Stella colours like turquoise, and dégradé dials with diamond markers all turn up on the smooth case, and they are where an 18028 leaves the everyday band behind. The deep dial taxonomy that spans the President line sits on the [[Reference:1803|1803]] entry; on the 18028 the dial, not the bezel, is the story.
+The smooth bezel pairs most naturally with a clean dial, and the common 18028 is a champagne or silvered dial with applied baton or stick markers, the dressiest and most discreet face in the line. Beyond that the 18028 takes the full 5-digit Day-Date dial menu: Roman-numeral, mother-of-pearl, diamond-index and the special dials. It is the special dials that carry the reference. Stone dials such as onyx and bloodstone, lacquered Stella colours like turquoise, and dégradé dials with diamond markers all turn up on the smooth case, and they are where an 18028 leaves the everyday band behind. The deep dial taxonomy that spans the President line sits on the [[Reference:1803|1803]] entry; on the 18028 the dial is the story.
 ==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown==
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 ==Bracelets, end links, and clasps==
-The 18028 wears the President bracelet, reference 8385, with the 55B end-links, the concealed Crownclasp and the solid links of the 5-digit era. There is no documented Jubilee or Oyster fitment; the smooth-bezel Day-Date shipped on the President like its siblings. As with any President, a clasp date code dates the bracelet rather than the head, and the cross-family detail sits on [[Reference:Bracelets]].
+The 18028 wears the President bracelet, reference 8385, with the 55B end-links, the concealed Crownclasp and the solid links of the 5-digit era. There is no documented Jubilee or Oyster fitment; the smooth-bezel Day-Date shipped on the President like its siblings. As with any President, a clasp date code dates the bracelet, which may be older or newer than the head, and the cross-family detail sits on [[Reference:Bracelets]].
 ==Special branches==