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Rolex Cellini - 18K Yellow Gold.

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Here's a vintage Rolex Cellini Manual Wind with a unique champagne hobnail finish on the dial and bracelet in 18K white gold from the 70s. Keeps great time and is fully functional. Measurements include a 33 x 24mm tank case with 6mm thickness and 22mm lug width. On its original gold mesh bracelet that fits up to a 7.5 inch wrist (long uncut original bracelet and clasp). This model is the oversized one, compared to the smaller ones. Stick hands. The watch wears like a cuff. This piece is very Midas-esq due to its shape and how it wears. Very unusual to see an example like this. 18k yellow gold case and caseback. All parts are original including the signed Rolex crown, caseback, dial, and movement. Both the dial and case are in great cosmetic, untouched condition.Ready to wear!

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History

The Cellini line — named after Renaissance goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini — is Rolex's dress watch offering, and it operates on entirely different logic than the sport and tool watches the brand is famous for. No date window, no rotating bezel, no crown guards. Just case, dial, and movement.

Introduced in the late 1960s, Cellini watches are exclusively 18-karat gold and are powered by manual-wind movements. The collection covers an extraordinary range of case shapes across its history: round, oval, rectangular, cushion, asymmetric, and the distinctive Cestello oval — all sharing a commitment to slim proportions and refined finishing that stands apart from anything else in the Rolex catalog.

References span from the early 3800-series oval cases of the late 1960s and early 1970s through the square 4233 Danaos of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Dials range from brushed champagne and silver sunburst to red and blue vignette, white Arabic, and foil patterns that no longer exist in current production. For collectors who want Rolex craftsmanship without the sport-watch aesthetic, Cellini is the answer — and it remains one of the most underappreciated categories in the entire vintage Rolex universe.