What's the real DateJust green color?
I haven't had a chance to see the green dial of the current DateJust models in person, and in the photos I've seen online, the color seems to vary quite a bit.
I was originally really drawn to what I would describe as a "slate green" as shown in the watch on the left. I've seen several photos of the watch with this particular tone of green, which seems to have some hints of blue or grey in it. The green tone shown on the Rolex web site, and in some other photos online, appears to be a much different green, more like an "olive green" with no hints of blue/grey, as per the watch on the right.
I'd really appreciate it if anyone familiar with this specific model could offer some insight as to which of the above photos is closer to what the watch looks like in real life.
I've worn a watch for as long as I can remember, but I didn't become interested in watches until 2018, when I bought my first decent mechanical watch. Shortly after purchasing it, I joined a local wat...
Having seen it in person, it leans more to the left pic than the right one.
I’m waiting for this dial version myself as it is stunning with the fluted bezel.
That's the problem of photographing things like watches, getting the color "right". Watches appear very differently under different kinds of light. Sunlight is the standard, if there is one, but often not the best light to photograph watches under, particularly those without AR coating. This is one of the biggest differences between the pros and the amateurs, the pros know how to do this, the rest of us don't. I try to take mine under neutral light, neither very warm or very cool, which is most easily done under indirect sunlight. It's good to keep this in mind when taking your pics and avoid artificial light unless you know what you're doing.
In reality, it is more like the left. Teal green under most lighting conditions. The olive green shade only comes under warm lighting.
The pictures on the Rolex website and most of the watch websites are usually renders. In person the watches always look much different to the official photos.
It's mint green.
They are both real and pretty cool, it just comes to preference. Have been lucky to try both on, and the mint would take my money if I ever bought a DJ.
The left picture is very true to the real thing.
Based on the apparent consensus that the true color of this dial is more like the watch on the left, I'm kicking myself for missing out on an opportunity for getting one at retail. A friend of mine was travelling, and had been offered a DJ36 with the green dial by an AD in the city he previously lived in. He didn't want it, but he texted me to see if I might be interested. I had never seen one in person, and was worried it was more like the photos on the Rolex site (the photo on the right) than on the gorgeous green on the left, which I had seen in so many other photos. If I had been certain that it would have looked like the one on the left, I would have bought it, but I didn't want to take the chance, so I passed. Oh well, c'est la vie.
I went in to order a blue one, I then saw the green and changed my mind and immediately ordered it instead, plain bezel. It’s beautiful in the flesh and I have never seen a photo yet that shows it correctly. Go into an AD to see it.
Haven’t seen one in person. All watches in herbal are tricky to capture even on the best video or pictures as they are ment to be seen in person and particularly on wrist