Rolex Datejust 16220 Panna dial Full Set and carrying the full weight

and carrying the full weight of the maison's decorative vocabulary

and refined details like Super-LumiNova filled hands and applied indices

The characteristic Breguet hands

The dial is where this reference makes its strongest impression: oversized Arabic numerals run the full circumference

slender hands

Rolex Datejust 16220 Panna dial Full Set and carrying the full weightThe reference 16220 represents the Datejust at its most classically resolved produced from 1988 to 2000, it brought together the 36mm Oyster case, the engine turned bezel, the Jubilee bracelet, and calibre 3135 in what remains one of the most balanced configurations the model has ever worn. Nothing added, nothing missing. This particular example carries a champagne "panna" dial a warm, creamy gold tone that sits somewhere between ivory and yellow, and