Rolex

Padellone

39 mm, platinum, polished finishM53506-0002

The dial features a grained finish at its centre and fine satin finish around the edge, faceted hour markers and 3 and 9 numerals in 18 ct white gold. A discreet railway minute track surrounds the ice blue dial. In addition to the calendar indications, it is graced with a blue enamelled moonphase disc displaying the full moon and the new moon, both crafted in meteorite and the second of the two treated with a dark blue PVD coating. The face on each moon is pad printed, as are the surrounding silver stars. The ice blue dial is the discreet and exclusive signature of a Rolex platinum watch. This exclusive dial colour can be found only on the Day-Date, the Cosmograph Daytona, the Land-Dweller, the 1908 and the Padellone.

Fitted with a domed and delicately fluted bezel, the Padellone features a 39 mm case with graceful lines. The upper part of the bezel is domed while the lower part is finely fluted, in a contemporary expression of traditional watchmaking and the brand’s aesthetic heritage.

Rare and precious, platinum is striking for its silvery whiteness and vibrant luminosity. It is among the densest and heaviest metals in the world, distinguished by unique chemical and physical properties such as exceptional corrosion resistance. Paradoxically, it is also soft, elastic and highly malleable, which makes machining and polishing especially difficult, demanding an extremely high degree of skill. Rolex always uses 950 platinum, an alloy consisting of 950‰ (thousandths) platinum, painstakingly crafted in-house by the fine metalworkers at Rolex. The noblest of metals for the finest of watches.