The great appeal of the traditional Datejust and Day-Date watches has always rested on their sheer scale of available options. The different possible connotations of various metal, dial color, bezel type and bracelet number into the thousands, looking to attract as wide an audience as possible.
With the Oysterquartz though, the selection was just a fraction of that given to the mechanical versions.
The Day-Date had the longer options list, with some fairly extraordinary variations emerging towards the end of its run. But the Datejust stuck very much to the basics, and potential customers had the choice of either champagne, black, white, blue or silver dials, mostly with plain stick baton hour markers, although Roman numerals did appear occasionally later.
On the two-tone case of the ref. 17013, those shades match particularly well and the champagne especially. A yellow Rolesor Fake Rolex Watches with a gold dial is one of the all time classic horology visuals.
Because of the brand’s reluctance in sending the earliest examples of the watch to the COSC, there are actually two types of dial, known as Mark I and Mark II. Mark I pieces don’t have the ‘Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified’ text, while the Mark II does. With the comparative rarity of the Mark I dials, they tend to be the more collectible, and expensive, of the two.
Finally during this era, the luminescent material Fake Rolex was using on hands and indexes went through changes as well. Most of the examples you will find on the preowned market were still using tritium, a low-level radioactive substance. These are easily identified by looking underneath the six o’clock index, where they will be marked ‘T Swiss T’ or ‘T Swiss Made T’. Those built from around 1998 until the end of production a couple of years later switched to the photoluminescent (and completely non-radioactive) Luminova. These are labeled simply ‘Swiss’.