Blue overtook black during the 2010s as the default colour of the luxury sports watch, and the market has never looked back. It is the most versatile dial colour there is — near-black indoors, vividly alive in sunlight — and blue references now span every tier of the Rolex catalogue, from two-tone Submariners to platinum-only ice blue. On the super clone side, blue models are perennially among the strongest sellers for exactly the same reason: one watch, several moods.

Iconic blue dial references

Reference Nickname Blue element
GMT-Master II 116710BLNR (2013) Batman Blue-and-black Cerachrom bezel
GMT-Master II 126710BLNR (2019) Batgirl Same bezel, launched on a Jubilee bracelet
Submariner 116619LB Smurf White gold with blue dial and bezel
Submariner 116613LB / 126613LB Bluesy Steel-and-gold Rolesor, blue dial and bezel
Oyster Perpetual 124300 turquoise “Tiffany” OP Turquoise blue lacquer dial
Day-Date 228206 / Daytona 116506 Ice blue Pale ice blue dial, platinum only

The Batman’s insert was Rolex’s first two-colour Cerachrom bezel, while ice blue remains reserved exclusively for platinum models — the 50th-anniversary Daytona 116506 pairs it with a chestnut brown ceramic bezel. The turquoise Oyster Perpetual became the accessible echo of the Tiffany-dial Patek 5711 almost overnight.

Choosing a blue dial super clone

Blue is really several colours, and each reference has its own. The Batman’s dial is actually black — it is the bezel that must be judged, with a crisp split at twelve and a blue half that reads navy rather than royal. The Smurf and Bluesy carry a rich sunburst blue that should shift dramatically with the light, while ice blue is pale, silvery and almost glacial — if a clone’s ice blue looks saturated, it is wrong. Match the movement to the generation (a clone 3186 for the Batman, a 3285 for the Batgirl) and request daylight photographs of the exact watch before it ships.

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