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Hey guys, this is Kevin from JazTime.com
and today we'll be doing a comparison
between two different Day-Dates.
On my left here we have the older style, very vintage model,
a Rolex Day-Date 36, reference number 18038.
And we'll be comparing it to the
newer style Day-Date, recently released in 2015,
the Rolex Day-Date 40 and that's reference number 228238.
We'll be going over the price, the dials, the bezel,
case, crown, bracelet, clasp, and we'll talk
about the movement towards the end of the video.
Alright? So as of August 2017, you're looking at,
for the Day-Date 36, you're looking at
a market value of around $10,000,
as there is no retail pricing,
as this watch has been discontinued for quite some time now.
For the newer model, the Day-Date 40,
you're looking at a retail pricing
from a Rolex authorized dealer for $34,850
or you can come to our website at JazTime.com
and get it for as low as $26,000.
So before I start, I do want to mention
that these two Day-Dates I have in my hand,
they're about 45 years apart.
So we're going to be taking a look
at the differences between the two watches,
as the 36 was released around the 1980s,
whereas, as I mentioned before with the Day-Date 40,
it was recently released in 2015.
Okay?
Alright, so let's go ahead and take a look at the dials.
The dials, both of them are sort of a sunburst dial,
but it's more prominent on the Day-Date 40 now.
As you can see, as I tilt it a little bit towards the light,
you can see it gleans much more
on the Day-Date 40, opposed to the Day-Date 36.
It still sort of seems like a flat coloring
but the sunburst is actually there. Okay?
Besides that, let's take a look at the hour markers.
The hour markers are both 18 carat yellow gold.
However, there's a difference between
the hour markers and the hands for both models.
Specifically, for the Day-Date 36, we're looking at
18 carat yellow gold hands with luminous tips.
As you can see, the little white stripes
on the tips of the minute and the hour hand,
along with little small squares of luminosity
at each edge of the index markers.
That's changed in the Day-Date 40.
If you're to get the Day-Date 40, the index markers,
the markers themselves would actually be luminous filled.
Luminous filled, so the markers themselves would glow
in the dark for approximately about up to eight hours.
One thing to mention is that the Day-Date 40 does come
in different colors in terms of dial configurations.
So you can get it in the champagne,
which I have in my hand here, or you can get it in white,
for the Roman hour markers. But if you're looking for
index markers that look similar to this,
you're looking at champagne, silver, or black dial.
Alright, so another difference is
along the edge of the dial, you can kind of see
that there's Roman numerals right behind
each index marker, just printed behind it.
Whereas the track around the edge is just
a simple scale for the Day-Date 40.
Besides that, we still have the crown at the
12 o'clock position, text, as well, right underneath.
As you can see, always the perpetual Day-Date
at the 12 o'clock position, right underneath that crown.
The six o'clock position, still
superlative chromometer officially certified.
We have the Swiss-made in different locations.
Swiss-made is in the actual track itself on the Day-Date 40.
Whereas the Day-Date 36, you can kind of see it
right above that six Roman numeral.
We still have the cyclops lens, as well,
for magnification, easier viewing of that date.
One other noticeable difference to
mention is what's called the rehock.
So let me go ahead and turn it over to the side.
Let's see if we can get a close up here.
So, if you can see along the edge of the wall
of the Day-Date 40, you kind of see
that Rolex name being engraved all round the sides.
That rehock wasn't introduced until 2006,
so the Day-Date 36 does not have that, as you can see.
It's just a solid flag gold wall, whereas the Day-Date 40
has that Rolex name engraved all around there.
So that's pretty much it for the dials.
They pretty much kept the dial
almost the same over the years.
As you can see, it's very noticeable
if you just immediately at a glance look,
you can immediately tell that these watches are Day-Dates.
So let's go ahead and move on to the bezel now.
The bezel, same type of bezel, just a fixed
18 carat yellow gold fluted bezel.
As you can see, very nice, very shiny.
Moving on the to the case. The case,
you're looking at, as the name states,
this one is a 36 mm case here on my left
and that's a 40 mm case on my right here.
So a little bit larger case size.
The main difference between the two cases,
besides the size, you're looking at
a brushed gold on the left here, whereas the right side,
we're looking at a nice high polish on the lugs
on the Day-Date 40, whereas it's just
a brushed gold on the Day-Date 36 and
that's on the top and the bottom.
Another thing is that the lugs are more rounded, as well,
on the Day-Date 36, as you can see at the very tips,
or rather it's the Day-Date 40.
Alright, besides that, let's go ahead
and show the sides of the case.
Alright, so, there we are.
So you're going to be looking at
obviously a little larger case size, as stated.
We have the nice high polish along the side of the case.
It travels very nicely along with
the sides of the bracelet, as well.
You can sort of already notice the
difference with the bracelet sides.
So, you can see, there's a high polish
on the side of the president links,
as you can see on the Day Date 40.
Whereas, the Day-Date 36 has just
a brushed gold on the sides.
Another thing to mention is that
the profiles of the watches, the 40s
going to be a bit bigger and that's mainly due
to the movement, as I'll go ahead and mention
as we move on to the next side with the crown.
So, we have the same high polish again,
high polish nice all the way throughout the 40,
whereas it's brushed gold for the 36.
The Rolex crown on the crown itself.
The reason for the little bit larger case size
on the Day-Date 40 is because of
an additional complication they added to it.
So with the old Day-Date 36, it has
what's called a single quick set
and the Day-Date 40 has what's called a double quick set,
which was introduced around 1990s.
So ten years apart, a different
mechanism was added to the movement.
And actually, I'll go ahead and demonstrate that now.
So, with the crowns, just go ahead
and unscrew counterclockwise.
Counterclockwise pops open the crown.
They're screwed down to enlock
double waterproofness systems. You're looking
at a water resistance of 100 meters or 330 feet.
In this first position, this is
the position in which you can windy watch.
So just going clockwise, you can windy watch
20 to 30 times, no more or you might
put too much tension and you might damage it.
But, this is where the difference
between the single set and the double quick set lies.
A simple tug of the crown will
put you in the second position.
The difference here is basically
you'll be able to change the date on a 36
just by going counterclockwise, as shown.
So you see, as we go counterclockwise,
you see that date just quickly changing.
Going clockwise doesn't change the date.
And for the Day-Date 40, this is
what needs to be a double quick set.
So going counterclockwise, there we go, changes the date.
But then going counterclockwise changes the day itself.
So the difference, basically, between
the single quick set and double quick set,
you're able to change the day at the 12 o'clock position
using the crown at the second position.
As we move on to the third position,
we move on to the third position that
stops the second hand on both the watches
for precise time setting, as you'll be able to set
the time exactly to such things as a timer clock online.
You can set it down to the exact seconds to keep track.
However, the difference here is that, as I mentioned,
you are able to change the day at
the 12 o'clock position with the Day-Date 40.
For the Day-Date 36, you'll have
to do a revolution of the watch.
As you see, as we keep going.
So, I'm going to put the Day-Date 40
down to demonstrate this.
See it's changed to Saturday?
It takes two full revolutions, of course,
a 24 hour period to change the day once.
One more revolution here and we should
be able to change it from Saturday to Sunday.
And there we are. So that's the difference
between the single set and the double quick set.
So always after you set the time,
make sure you screw the crown nice and tight
in against the case, because you want
to keep the watch water-resistant.
Press it in, go ahead, nice and tight. Alright.
So that's the difference between
the single quick set and the double quick set.
We're going to ahead and move on to the bracelet now.
So the bracelet is a special bracelet
specifically for the Day-Date.
It's called a president-style bracelet.
Looks very similar to the jubilee bracelet that Rolex
normally has, which is a five-piece link bracelet.
However, this is just a three-piece link bracelet
with sand finish on the gold links on the outer parts,
while the center portion of the links
are nicely high polished to give
a nice contrast and add more shine to the watch.
As I mentioned earlier, you can see
that difference on the side of the president links.
The brushed gold on the 36, where the 40
has a nice high polish on the side.
And that's on the other side, as well.
One major difference between the two
bracelets is the style of the links.
Specifically, the 36 has what's called a hollow-style link,
while the Day-Date 40 has what's called
the solid-filled links or solid links.
And that wasn't introduced until around the 2000s.
It's a really important thing to mention, mainly because,
I actually can demonstrate this to you very easily.
So, a hollow-link, the little bar in the center
of the links that hold the links together, it's hollow,
meaning that there's a little space between them.
And over time, it gets kind of stretched
in this bracelet, as you can kind of see
as I wiggle the bracelet around.
Stretch is done over time, as you can see there.
Whereas, the newer style Day-Date
has what's called solid-filled,
so the links have no wiggle room to move.
And you can kind of see as I try
to wiggle it, stays that same shape.
So there was no room for those links
to have that ability to stretch out,
so this bracelet will pretty much stay
the same throughout its lifetime now.
So that's one of the most important things
about the difference between the two bracelets.
The next thing, as we move on to the clasps now,
we still have this concealed folding crown clasp
that's located by the Rolex logo.
But, you'll notice a huge difference
between the two as I pop that open.
Here we are. So the older style
concealed folding clasp, you can see is just very simple,
very thin 18 carat yellow gold clasp blades.
That's just brushed yellow gold.
Very simple, very plain, whereas the newer style
Day-Date 40, we have this beautiful high polished
clasp blades with the Rolex name embossed
on to the clasp blade itself there.
And the year that they changed this to,
was back in 2003, they actually changed
it to this style of clasp for the Day-Date.
However, it wasn't fully high polished yet.
It actually used to be a sand-blasted finish
in the center with the Rolex name embossed
on there and they only recently changed it in 2016
that the center of the clasp blade is also a higher polish.
So let's go ahead and talk about
the movement now, as we move on.
Here are the two case backings that we're looking at here.
You can see a little difference in the case backing.
See there, they're both oyster case backings.
Just very minor differences.
Let's see if I can get a better angle here.
As you can see, that fluted portion
of it is much thinner, where the case backing
on the 40 is a little more raised,
the flutedness a little more prominent.
Specifically, for the movement we're looking at,
of course, movement that's been made 45 years apart.
I specifically say 45 years because the Day-Date 40's
movement was introduced with its unveil, as well.
So what are the differences between the two movements?
For the Day-Date 36 on my left-
Or rather, let's talk about the similarities first.
So, they're both bi-directional, self-pointing movements
in house made by Rolex. They're both COFC certified
with precision of -2/+2 seconds a day.
You have the functions of the hour, minutes,
and seconds hand with the stopping of the seconds hand.
Like I said, single quick set for the Day-Date 36,
but double quick set for the Day-Date 40.
The differences between the movement, however,
lies in just smaller, smaller parts of it.
So, for the hair springs, we're looking at
a breguet hair springs on the Day-Date 36,
whereas the Day-Date 40 has a blue parachrom hair spring,
which is an in-house made hair spring,
made by Rolex, that has more magnetic resistance.
The shock absorbers, you're looking at KIF shock absorbers
on the Day-Date 36 and then the Day-Date 40,
you're looking at the in-house made
paraflex shock absorbers, which Rolex claims
about 50 percent more shock absorption than the KIF.
They recently added an additional thing
to the Day-Date 40's movement,
which is the 3255 movement,
which is the chronology escapement,
which is a skeletonized escape wheel
that Rolex claims about a 15 percent gain in efficiency
from transmitting energy from the wheel
to the lever and to the balance itself.
The power reserve of these watches,
you're looking at a 48 hour power reserve
on the 36 compared to a 70 hour
power reserve on the Day-Date 40.
And I do apologize, I did not mention the movement numbers.
The Day-Date 36 is a 3055 movement,
whereas the Day-Date 40 is a 3255 movement.
You can pretty much tell which year a Day-Date
is from just based on the movement alone,
as the older style ones are the 3055s.
And as we move on to other reference numbers
in the center, which is like the 118,
starting with the 118, the 3155 movements, and then
the newer release was in 2015, which is the 3255 movement.
With that said, let's go ahead and
get these watches on my wrist and give you
a quick show of how they look like.
Once again, just very simple concealed folding crown clasp.
Go ahead and place that on here.
Snaps right in.
And there is your watch there.
So, even though it's a 45 year old watch,
it still looks absolutely fantastic.
Now, let's go ahead with the Day-Date 40 now.
And there's the Day-Date 40 on my wrist.
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