Hands-On: Rolex Day-Date 36 Green Aventurine And Turquoise Stone Dial Watches

While we have seen a decent amount of color from Rolex in more recent years, the famous Swiss watch manufacturer has historically adhered to a rather sober and traditional design language. However, the Day-Date has always been Rolex’s creative playground, and decades before you could even get a green bezel on the Submariner, Rolex was producing variations of the Day-Date with a vast assortment of unusual dials. Some of the more rare and collectible offerings produced throughout the years have been the ones constructed using slices of semi-precious stones, and Rolex has recently started to bring stone dials back into the spotlight. Introduced among Rolex’s novelties at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2023 were three new stone dials for the 36mm Day-Date, and alongside a carnelian dial for the yellow gold model are dials made from turquoise and green aventurine that will be offered for the Everose gold, white gold, and platinum versions of the Rolex Day-Date 36.

This latest generation of Rolex Day-Date 36 watches was first introduced in 2019, and these most recent stone dial releases for 2023 are essentially novel configurations for the same flagship models that have already been staples within Rolex’s collection for the last several years. At the present time, the green aventurine dial is exclusively available for the Everose gold version of the Rolex Day-Date 36, although it remains an option for both fluted bezel and diamond bezel configurations of the model. Meanwhile, the turquoise stone dial was already available for the yellow gold Day-Date 36, although Rolex has now made it an option for the white gold, Everose gold, and platinum 36mm models, which means that you can now get a turquoise stone dial for any version of the Day-Date 36, regardless of its materials or the type of bezel that is fitted to the watch.

Below are a list of Rolex Day-Date 36 references that are available with the green aventurine and turquoise stone dials (as of December 2023).

Green Aventurine Stone Dial

• Ref. 128235 (Everose gold, fluted bezel)
• Ref. 128345RBR (Everose gold, diamond bezel)

Turquoise Stone Dial

• Ref. 128238 (yellow gold, fluted bezel)
• Ref. 128348RBR (yellow gold, diamond bezel)
• Ref. 128239 (white gold, fluted bezel)
• Ref. 128349RBR (white gold, diamond bezel)
• Ref. 128235 (Everose gold, fluted bezel)
• Ref. 128345RBR (Everose gold, diamond bezel)
• Ref. 128236 (platinum, fluted bezel)
• Ref. 128396TBR (platinum, diamond bezel)