Rolex · Lady-Datejust 26 · 69179 · Tridor · Jurassic dial · pre-owned on Amazon
Three golds and a fossil for a dial.
Tridor was Rolex’s name for a bracelet that used white, yellow and rose gold together, and it went on a small number of Day-Dates and Lady-Datejusts in the 1980s and 1990s. This one is the 69179, a white gold Lady-Datejust with a yellow gold fluted bezel, and the dial is the rarest thing on it: a grey slice of fossil-bearing stone Rolex called Jurassic, set with ten diamonds. Serial W, so about 1995, with its branded box. Pre-owned through a Luxury Stores reseller, graded Excellent.
- Case
- 26mm, 18k white gold, 18k yellow gold fluted bezel, 100m
- Movement
- Calibre 2135 automatic, quickset date, about 42 h
- Dial
- Jurassic fossil stone (grey), ten diamond markers, Cyclops date
- Bracelet
- Tridor President, white, yellow and rose gold, hidden Crownclasp (the listing says Jubilee)
- Comes with
- Branded box; serial W93xxxx (about 1995); wrist 7 to 9 inches
- This unit
- Excellent; faint scratching to caseback
Tridor, and the Jurassic dial
Rolex made the Tridor bracelet for a decade or so from the mid-1980s: a President or Jubilee with the centre links in yellow gold and the outer links in white gold, with a stripe of rose gold through the middle on some versions, so all three of its golds show at once. It was fitted to white gold cases with a yellow gold bezel, which is why this watch reads as two-tone from across a room and as three metals up close.
The Jurassic dial is a slice of grey fossiliferous stone, a limestone full of tiny shells and fragments, cut thin and set with diamonds. Rolex made few of them, on the Lady-Datejust and the Datejust, and they are among the least common of its stone dials. Every slice is a different piece of sea floor.
Reading the listing
The seller titles the watch as yellow gold, because that is what the bezel and the bracelet centres are, but the 69179 reference is Rolex’s white gold Lady-Datejust; the case and the outer bracelet links are white gold. The description calls the bracelet a Tridor Jubilee, but the photograph shows the semi-circular links and hidden Crownclasp of the President. Read the reference and the photograph.
The serial prefix W puts the watch around 1995. It comes with its branded box, sized for a 7 to 9 inch wrist, and the condition line is Excellent with faint scratching to the caseback. Papers are not mentioned, and the listing does not say whether the Jurassic dial is factory; ask. Every figure here comes from the listing and from Rolex’s reference system, not from handling the watch.
Buying it pre-owned on Amazon
Rolex is pre-owned only on Amazon. This unit is sold by What Goes Around Comes Around 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 Tridor Lady-Datejusts.
Tridor and stone-dial Lady-Datejusts have resold close to what people paid for them and often above plain ones, sometimes more, sometimes less; that is a pattern, not a promise, and nothing here is investment advice.
Specs
- Reference
- 69179
- Case size
- 26mm
- Case material
- 18k white gold (69179), 18k yellow gold fluted bezel
- Movement
- Automatic, Rolex calibre 2135, quickset date
- Caliber type
- Rolex 2135, chronometer certified
- Crystal
- Sapphire Crystal, Cyclops
- Water resistance
- 100m (10 ATM)
- Power reserve
- About 42 hours
- Complications
- Date
- Origin
- Swiss Made
Specifications as published by Rolex. We research from manufacturer documentation and published sources rather than hands-on testing. Researched 2026-09-12.
Verdict
A white gold Lady-Datejust on the three-gold Tridor President with a Jurassic fossil diamond dial and its box, pre-owned on Amazon: two rare things on one small watch.
Strengths
- Tridor President bracelet, three golds, made for about a decade
- Jurassic fossil-stone dial with diamonds, one of the rarest Rolex dials
- Solid 18k gold case and bracelet, box included
- Amazon’s return window on top of the seller’s authentication
Trade-offs
- Listing title and bracelet line are both slightly wrong; read the reference and photograph
- Dial originality and papers not stated; ask
- 26mm; small by today’s standards
- One unit; when it sells, it is gone
Buy it if
Someone who collects the odd corners of Rolex and wants a ladies’ watch that is genuinely hard to find twice.
Skip it if
You want a larger case, a plain dial, or a listing that answers every question before you ask.
FAQ
A Rolex bracelet from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s that combines white, yellow and rose gold in one bracelet. On this watch it is the President with semi-circular links and a hidden Crownclasp.
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- Rolex Lady-Datejust, official collection page
- Amazon Luxury Stores listing (What Goes Around Comes Around, pre-owned), read 2026-09-12
Researched and last updated 2026-09-12. We do not test watches in hand; every figure above is traceable to the manufacturer or the sources listed here.
Rolex Lady-Datejust 26 69179 (white gold, yellow gold bezel, Jurassic fossil dial, Tridor President, box)
Reference 69179 · $10,000–$25,000
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