Amsterdam Vintage Watches claims that only four of these lilac 1:1 wholesale replica watches are known to exist, and the Dutch house has one (pictured below) in their museum. To be clear, lilac is not the more common pink (or rose) Stella dial, but a pale purple.
Released in the mid 1970s, these colorful dials were UK perfect replica Rolex watches’ first attempt to break out of its staid aesthetic and capture the playfulness of the moment (something we’re not sure is always a good idea for Rolex). ‘Stella’ refers to the company that produced the varnish used by the Stern dial company (owners of Patek Phillippe by then) to produce these lustrous finishes. This varnish is not hot-fired enamel, which people often mistakenly assume, but the varnish is fired at relatively low temperatures between coats to dry and harden it. A final clear coat goes on top, and then the silicon pad printing goes on top of that, creating a slight floating effect for the text over the dial.
Best fake Rolex doesn’t appear to have thought these pastel offerings through very carefully, because the solid gold Day-Date was, in the early 1970s, the brand’s most complicated, expensive and establishment-oriented watch. The disco kids weren’t going to afford, or even want, the stodgiest of solid gold Rolexes. The more affordable steel Air-King or some such would have been a better candidate for youthful, post-flower-power, polyester-clad indulgence.
The UK Swiss copy watches are said to have sold abysmally, especially the lilac 1803. As a four-digit reference, the 1803 went out of production around 1978 and lacks a quick-set date function. It does sport a pie-pan dial—meaning that the outer minute track is angled downward in a manner said to resemble a pie-pan. Pie-pan dials were very popular in the 1950s and 60s, with Omega being especially known for them.
On May 9th of 2015, Phillips ran the “Glamorous high quality replica Rolex Day-Date Auction” in Geneva.Whoever bought the lilac 1803 got the deal of the night, in my opinion, as that’s the rare one. The numbers achieved at this auction astounded the watch world and set the Stella on its upward trajectory.
In 2022, a near-mint five-digit taxi-yellow Stella—a far more common color and reference dating to 1995—sold in Monaco. It’s hard to imagine what the very rare lilac UK cheap super clone watches could hammer for these days. None we are aware of have come up for public sale since the aforementioned example sold in Geneva in 2015. If the four known examples are all that exist, then we can assume that if one were to go up for auction, it would have a good shot at passing the seven-figure mark.
