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Model reference: 178278-0065
A 31 mm yellow-gold Datejust with a fluted bezel, a black dial set with stone markers and a three-piece President-style bracelet with a concealed clasp.
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About this watch
This configuration is gold through the case, the bezel and the bracelet, and the dial is dark. The result is a watch whose light comes almost entirely from the metal: the fluting, the polished case flanks and the semi-circular centre links all do the same work of turning bright and dark as the watch moves.
The frames follow that argument through the parts — the whole watch in hand, an angled view where the dial takes on a reflected blue-grey cast, a close-up of the fluted bezel beside the crown, and a view of the bracelet and its concealed clasp. The dial colour is the one thing worth reading in more than one frame, because a black surface reflects whatever is around it.
A black dial is a mirror as much as a colour: it reflects whatever surface is nearby and whatever light reaches it. In the angled frame on this page the surface picks up a blue-grey cast, while the straight-on frame reads black. That is reflection, not a second colour.
This is worth knowing before you judge a dial from a photograph. If the exact tone matters, ask for a straight-on frame in daylight with the watch on a neutral surface, and read the colour from that frame rather than from an angled one.
The markers are set elements rather than printed points, and against a black surface each one reads as a separate highlight. The metal settings add a second, dimmer ring around every stone, so the marker ring has two levels of brightness instead of one.
Set markers are not luminous, so on this configuration the dial’s low-light behaviour is a question about the offered watch rather than about the layout. In daylight the ring of markers is unambiguous, which is what the straight-on frame shows.
Three pieces run across the width, with a row of rounded semi-circular centre links between two rows of flat outer links. The centre row is what gives the bracelet its broken, bead-like reflection, quite different from the flat parallel strips of a five-link bracelet.
The second difference is the clasp: it is concealed inside the bracelet, so the link pattern continues unbroken around the wrist and no buckle is visible from outside. The bracelet frame on this page shows that continuity, and it is the view to compare when checking for stretching.
With gold on both the case and the bracelet, the bezel is the part that adds a second rhythm to the light. Each ridge has a bright face and a dark face, so the ring alternates as the watch turns rather than reflecting evenly like a polished surface.
In the close-up frame the fluting occupies most of the image, which is the best way to look for unevenness between ridges or marks that are hard to see at a distance. On any individual watch this is a condition check first and a design point second.
Thirty-one millimetres is a middle size within this collection, but the mass sits differently on this reference than on a steel watch of the same diameter, because the case and bracelet are the same metal throughout. That affects how the watch settles on the wrist rather than how large it looks.
Ask for the lug-to-lug length, the thickness and the number of links fitted, then compare those against a watch you wear. Removing links on a three-piece bracelet changes the balance more noticeably than on a finer five-link pattern, so ask how much adjustment remains.
The bracelet first: stretching between the links is the most common visible issue on a gold bracelet and it is easy to photograph — ask for the bracelet held horizontally by the case, with the links hanging free. Then the dial and bezel, straight on and in daylight.
The metals last: ask what the case, bezel and bracelet are made from on the offered watch and whether anything is plated over the base. With the reference 178278-0065 and those answers, the picture of the specific watch is complete enough to decide on.
Specification
| Detail | Description |
|---|---|
| Model reference | 178278-0065 |
| Model size | 31 mm |
| Dial | Black, with set stone markers |
| Hour-marker layout | Set stone markers with metal settings, replaced by the date at 3 o’clock |
| Date display | 3 o’clock, under a magnifying lens |
| Bezel design | Fluted, warm gold tone in the photographs |
| Bracelet design | Three-piece with semi-circular centre links, gold tone throughout |
| Clasp | Concealed inside the bracelet, so the link pattern is unbroken |
| Colour combination | Dark dial with stone markers inside a gold case, on a gold bracelet |
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