Rolex Day-Date Super Clones on the President Bracelet
Day-Date Watches(36)
Day-Date · 228206 Rolex Ice Blue Motif Dial
Day-Date · 228239 Rolex Stripe Dark Rhodium Dial
Day-Date · 128238 Rolex 36mm Gold Dial
Sold out · notify me
Day-Date · 128239 Rolex 36mm Mother-of-Pearl, Roman Numerals
Day-Date · 228239 Rolex 40mm White Dial
Day-Date · 128238 Rolex Black Diamond Dial in Yellow Gold
Day-Date · 218238 Rolex Day-Date II 40mm Gold Dial
Day-Date · 118206 Rolex 36mm Ice Blue Dial
Day-Date · 118135 Rolex 36mm Silver Dial
Day-Date · 118139 Rolex 36mm Blue Dial
Day-Date · 118209 Rolex Day Date 36mm Silver Dial
Sold out · notify me
Day-Date · 228238 Rolex 40mm Black Dial
Sold out · notify me
Day-Date · 228238 Rolex 40mm Silver Dial
Day-Date · 228238 Rolex 40mm White Dial
Day-Date · 228238 Rolex 40mm Champagne Dial
Day-Date · 228238 Rolex Champagne Dial Watch
Day-Date · 228206 Rolex Ice Blue Motif Dial Watch
Day-Date · 228239 Rolex Quadrant Texture White Dial Watch
Day-Date · 228239 Rolex Silver Dial Fluted Bezel Watch
Day-Date · 228238 Rolex Silver Motif Dial
About the Day-Date
The Day-Date is the watch every U.S. President since Eisenhower has been photographed wearing. Worn by more world leaders, dictators, kings, and prime ministers than any other timepiece in history. We list 36 of them, in 36mm and 40mm, with yellow, rose and white gold plating or plain steel. Famous dials include the legendary Ice Blue — platinum-exclusive at the real shop. Olive Green Saudi king dial. Mother-of-pearl. Champagne. Ours start at $359 on a Japanese Miyota automatic; if you want the Swiss ETA-clone caliber, the same President is $999.
Why Every Powerful Person Wears This Watch
Rolex put the first Day-Date out in 1956 and made one decision nobody else in the watch industry was making. They would only offer it in solid gold or solid platinum. Rolex has never made a steel Day-Date. Not in 1956, not in 2026, not at any point in seventy years. Only Rolex collection in the catalog where the cheapest version starts at around forty thousand dollars at the official shop, because the metal alone costs thousands. The watch was designed from day one as a statement piece — a watch you wear to tell other people in the room that you are someone who matters. The engineering excuse was that it was the first wristwatch on earth to display the full day of the week spelled out across the dial at 12 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, not just WED. That was actually a hard mechanical problem in 1956 — the disc that holds seven full English words is significantly bigger than a date wheel, and Rolex spent years getting the mechanism reliable. But the day-of-the-week display was never really the point. The point was the gold.
Within a few years the Day-Date had ended up on the wrist of almost every powerful person on earth. Eisenhower was the first U.S. president associated with one. Then Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, the Bushes. Bigger story is outside the United States. Khrushchev wore one. Castro wore two at the same time, one set to Havana and one to Moscow. Saddam Hussein owned several. Muammar Gaddafi owned dozens. Jiang Zemin wore one. The King of Thailand. The Shah of Iran. Mikhail Gorbachev. Day-Date is the single most cross-ideological, cross-cultural symbol of political power any wristwatch has ever produced. Communists wore it. Capitalists wore it. Dictators wore it. Democratically elected presidents wore it. The watch did not care. The bracelet that came with it — a three-piece semi-circular link design Rolex created for the Day-Date — was officially called the President bracelet by Rolex itself. The nickname stuck to the whole watch.
Every one of our 36 Day-Date references covers the modern catalog. 36mm cases (128238 and 128239 among them) are the historically correct size — same size Eisenhower and Khrushchev wore. Read as classical, dressy, old-school formal. 40mm Day-Date (228238, 228235, 228239) was launched in 2015 and is now the bestseller for buyers under fifty because the slightly bigger case looks more modern. Both sizes share the same fluted bezel, the same President bracelet, the same dials. Most-searched dial in the modern Day-Date is the Ice Blue. At the real shop, Ice Blue is reserved exclusively for the platinum Day-Date — Rolex made up the rule themselves to keep the color rare. Ice Blue Day-Date at the official shop costs sixty thousand dollars instead of forty. We carry the Ice Blue dial on steel and gold-plated cases at our normal price. Olive Green (the one Saudi King Salman is famous for wearing), mother-of-pearl and champagne are listed too.
What we copy and what we don't. Case dimensions, lug width, fluted bezel, President bracelet with the correct semi-circular three-piece links, concealed Crown clasp, Cyclops magnifier, dial layout with the day at 12 and the date at 3, satisfying click when day and date both jump at midnight, weight on your wrist. All of that we get right. Where we cut corners is the metal. Real Day-Date is solid 18K gold or solid platinum. Ours is plain steel or heavy gold plating over a steel base. Plating is thick, durable, won't tarnish under normal wear, looks visually identical to solid 18K gold. The only honest way to keep a Day-Date at $359 — a real solid gold Day-Date starts at $40,000 because the gold alone is worth $15,000 to $20,000. Weigh ours next to a real one on a scale, the real one is heavier. Wear ours every day, no human can tell. Other thing worth knowing is the movement. Real Day-Date runs the Caliber 3255 with a 70-hour reserve and COSC chronometer certification. Under the dial sits a Japanese Miyota automatic, or for $999 a Swiss ETA-clone caliber; reserve is about 40 hours on the first and about 70 hours on the second.
Which caliber sits behind each model? Rolex caliber chart, model by model
What to Expect
President Look, No Gold-Price Math
Same President look on the wrist as a $40,000 real Day-Date, without the gold-price math. Japanese Miyota inside at $359, about 40 hours of reserve; Swiss ETA-clone at $999, about 70 hours.
Day Spelled Out at 12 O'Clock
Day of the week written in full — WEDNESDAY, not WED — across the top of the dial. Mechanical complication that defined the Day-Date in 1956 and that almost no other watch has ever properly copied.
President Bracelet
Semi-circular three-piece link bracelet Rolex designed specifically for the Day-Date in 1956 and named after the watch itself. Concealed Crown clasp, perfect drape, only on the Day-Date.
Ice Blue Dial Available
At the real Rolex shop the Ice Blue dial is reserved for the solid platinum Day-Date and costs $60,000+. We carry the Ice Blue look on steel and gold-plated cases at our normal price. Skip the platinum cost completely.
Fluted Bezel
Signature Day-Date fluted bezel that catches light from every angle. Yellow gold, rose gold, or white gold finish over the steel base. Heavy plating, not spray paint.
Multi-Language Day Wheel
Day of the week available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and other languages. Standard ships in English. Message us before ordering for other language wheels.
Day-Date Super Clone: Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the Day-Date called the President?
Two reasons, and the order matters. First: in 1956, Rolex designed a brand-new bracelet specifically for the Day-Date — a three-piece semi-circular link design nothing else in the catalog used. Rolex officially named it the President bracelet. So the bracelet was called the President before any actual president ever wore one. Second: starting with Dwight Eisenhower in the late 1950s, the Day-Date ended up on the wrist of nearly every U.S. president for the next 40 years. Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes — all photographed wearing one. The two facts collided and the nickname stuck to the whole watch. Today both Rolex and collectors use President interchangeably with Day-Date.
Is the gold real on the Day-Date?
No, and here's the honest math. A real solid 18K gold Day-Date at the official Rolex shop starts at around $40,000. Of that price, roughly $15,000 to $20,000 is the raw value of the gold alone — the case and bracelet together weigh about 100 grams of solid 18K gold, and gold trades at around $200 per gram. There is no way to build a $359 watch out of solid gold without losing money on every sale. So we use heavy gold plating over a steel base. Plating is thick — much thicker than cheap costume jewelry plating — durable, won't tarnish under normal daily wear, looks visually identical to solid 18K gold. Weigh ours on a scale next to a real one, the real one is noticeably heavier. Wear ours every day, nobody can tell, because nobody walks around with a scale.
36mm or 40mm Day-Date, which size wears better?
Depends on your wrist size and what era you want to channel. 36mm is the historically correct size — same case Eisenhower and Khrushchev and Castro and the other 1960s leaders wore — reads as old-school formal, dressy, refined. By our fit table, that size suits wrists of roughly 5.5 to 6.75 inches. Day-Date 40, launched in 2015, is bigger and more modern-looking, at about 6.5 to 7.5 inches. Bestseller for buyers under 50 because the slightly bigger case has more presence on the wrist. Wrist above 6.75 inches, the 40 is probably the right pick. Smaller than 6.5 inches, get the 36 — the 40 will look big and sit awkwardly under a suit cuff. The President bracelet is offered in both sizes.
Which Day-Date should I actually buy?
Buy the 36mm yellow gold with the champagne dial. Sounds boring. This is the watch that became the symbol of power for seventy years for a reason — warm yellow gold against the warm champagne dial is the single most timeless combination Rolex has ever made, exactly what Eisenhower and the Bushes and Reagan all owned. Ice Blue dial is the second pick if you want something more distinctive. Icy blue against a steel or white-gold finish is genuinely beautiful, and at the real shop you would have to pay platinum money to get it. Olive Green is the third pick if you specifically want the Saudi king look, but it's a louder dial than people expect on the wrist day to day. Skip the diamond bezels unless you specifically want a bling watch. Skip the rose gold unless you have a specific reason to want it. Yellow gold and champagne dial. Trust the seventy years of evidence.
Day-Date vs Datejust: what am I paying extra for?
Two main differences. First, Day-Date adds the full day of the week spelled out at 12 o'clock — Wednesday, Thursday, Friday — instead of just showing the date. Datejust only has the date window at 3 o'clock. Second, and more importantly, Rolex makes the Day-Date only in solid precious metals. Gold or platinum. Rolex has never made a steel one. Datejust is available in steel, two-tone, and gold. Day-Date is the more prestigious and more expensive of the two siblings — historically the watch of presidents and prime ministers, while the Datejust is the everyday luxury watch of executives and lawyers. We carry both.
Can I get the Day-Date with the Ice Blue dial?
Yes. At the official Rolex shop, the Ice Blue dial is one of the rarest dials in the entire Rolex catalog because it's reserved exclusively for solid platinum Day-Date references — Rolex made up this rule themselves to keep the color rare and the platinum models exclusive. A platinum Ice Blue Day-Date at the official shop costs around $60,000. In our catalog the Ice Blue dial comes on steel and gold-plated cases, from $359. You get the platinum-exclusive dial look without the platinum cost. One of the strongest reasons to buy one in the first place.