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Audemars Piguet Day-date — 18k Yellow Gold

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Here's a vintage Audemars Piguet automatic daydate in 18K yellow gold with. clean white dial from the late 90s, early 2000s. Keeps great time and is fully functional. . Measurements include a 35mm case size and 18mm lug width. On its original black alligator leather strap and gold buckle. Quickset day and date function in the sub dials at 3 and 9 a clock. Matching stick hands and hour markers. Clean white dial. Hard to come by these vintage APs. Serial number on the snapback caseback: 87316. All parts are original including the crown, dial, and caseback. Both the dial and case are in great cosmetic, untouched condition.
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History

When Rolex introduced the Day-Date in 1956, it did two things no watch had done before: it displayed the day of the week spelled out in full at 12 o'clock, and it did so only in 18-karat gold or platinum — never steel, never silver. The message was clear. This was the watch for people who had arrived.

The President bracelet, created exclusively for the Day-Date, added another layer of distinction: a three-piece link design in solid precious metal that became so associated with power that the watch earned the unofficial name "the President's watch." Dwight Eisenhower was among its earliest recipients; the list of heads of state, CEOs, and cultural figures who followed runs long.

References 1803 and 18038 define the classic era — the 1803 from the late 1960s through mid-1970s, and the 18038 through the 1980s. Dial options across these years are staggering: champagne, black, onyx, diamond-set, baguette, wood, and stone dials all appeared in regular production. The Day-Date is the watch Rolex made to prove that Swiss precision and genuine luxury were not mutually exclusive. Fifty years later, that argument has never been made more convincingly