The cheapest Rolex here, and it has its box and papers.

The Lady-Datejust is the Datejust at 26mm, the size Rolex made for women from the 1950s until it moved the line to 28mm in 2015. It is the same watch in miniature: an Oyster case with a screw-down crown, an automatic chronometer movement, the date under its Cyclops lens at three, a fluted or engine-turned bezel, and a Jubilee or Oyster bracelet. Because Rolex made them for six decades in every dial and metal, the pre-owned market is deep and this is where the money goes when people search for a women’s Rolex.

The 79160 is the plainest steel Lady-Datejust of the 2000s: the smooth domed bezel instead of fluting or engine-turning, the Oyster bracelet instead of the Jubilee, and the calibre 2235 with a quickset date inside. It is the reference that costs least pre-owned, and this one has its box and papers and a 2003 serial, which most of the Lady-Datejusts on this page do not. The black dial makes it read as a small sports watch.

WGACA gives the reference as 79160, the size as 26mm, the case as steel with a domed bezel and sapphire, the movement as quickset automatic, the dial as black with Arabic and index markers, the bracelet as an Oyster with Oysterclasp, box and papers as included, the serial as F20xxxx, the wrist as 7 inches and the condition as Excellent with faint caseback scratching. The photograph matches; the calibre 2235, chronometer rating, reserve and 100 metres are Rolex’s published figures for the 79160.

WGACA authenticates in-house and is not a Rolex authorised dealer, and Amazon adds its 30-day return window. Ask for the serial, whether box or papers come with it, and when it was last serviced. Nothing here was measured on the watch.

This unit is sold by What Goes Around Comes Around (WGACA) through Amazon Luxury Stores, authenticated by the seller with Amazon’s 30-day return window on top; it is one piece, and when it sells the listing goes away, so the second button opens the live search for 26mm Lady-Datejusts.

Steel and two-tone Lady-Datejusts have resold close to what pre-owned buyers paid, sometimes more, sometimes less; that is a pattern, not a promise, and nothing here is investment advice.