Rolex DayDate 228235 dial swap in Europe - any point paying premium for an olive?

[SSdayton]

Hi all,

on a separate thread it has been mentioned that in Europe a member had his chocolate dial on his Rose Gold DayDate, swapped to an olive dial by RSC (model 228235)

My question is, the warranty card for both the old and new style wont show dial colour on how the watch came out the factory originally, it only shows the model number and serial.

So is there any way for a buyer, grey dealer or AD to confirm you have an original olive upon sale out of the AD, or wether it was swapped later?

As you could purchase a 228235 without paying the olive premium and get a dial swap done instead??

[peterpl]

I think that case is a VERY rare occasion. He even got to keep his old dial which is unheard of really. Rolex never allows that so I'm not sure how he got to do it.

What I heard is Rolex will swap dials but not on brand new watches. There was a minimum period when the watch was sold for any dial swap to occur which makes sense.

After 5+ years of ownership some owners will want a variation of dial just to swap things out and get something fresh and new. This is most likely in place to stop flippers buying anything and just asking for the most hyped ones.

[Benzsiam]

I purchased 228235 Olive green dial last May.

On the receipt it indicated as:

40mm Day-Date 18KT Everose Green Roman Dial Fluted Bezel President

But on the warranty card indicated only Model No. 228235 and the serial No.

I am not quite sure that every ADs will indicate the color of dial on the receipt.

May be only RSC can tell the original dial color by the serial number of the watch.

[JodyHighroller]

Just FYI, the old style warranty card did show the color dial in some regions. (The UK cards never did).

With the new warranty card (NFC chip), you’ll be hard pressed to confirm what dial your watch originally came with. The information stored on it isn’t accessible to any dealer or individual.

As Benzsiam pointed out, your only bet would be the store receipt, but that can vary. For example, one of my ADs doesn’t print out the dial info and only includes watch model and reference number.

[sond86]

Mines several years old and the card says chocolate Roman on it.
I’m in the process of a swap to green

Even though it’s a keeper

Anyone have a guess how it would affect the value being a factory swap?

Has anyone seen a trusted seller list one with a factory swap to see how the value is?

My guess is it would have a market value somewhere in the middle between chocolate and olive?

Or would it be worth less since not 100% as originally born?