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The Datejust knows nothing about months or year -it's a simple calendar you neded to manually adjust for months with 30, 29, and 28 days. Rolex hasn't made a complicated calendar watch for about 40 years to my knowledge. Perpetual has more to do with Rolex's introducing mass-produced reliable automatic winding wristwatches in the 1930s when manual winding was the norm.

There are very affordable quartz watches with "perpetual calendars" mostly from Seiko and Citizen. A true perpetual mechanical watch is relatively costly.

Omega currently makes a quartz constellation with a perpetual calendar. I also think Frederique Constant has an annual calendar quartz at a reasonable price.

Omega just announced an annual calenadr that only needs correction for leap years, but it's limited to 160 pieces in white gold = $$$. I imagine they might release a larger run in the future in steel at a lower price point, but it will still be relatively expensive.

Some "vintage " Omegas, Movados, and Audemars Piguets from the 80s were relatively inexpensive and had perpetual calendars.

I own many watches, including an Aqua Terra and vintage Rolex (a modern Datejust briefly last year). I'm not sure what feature you saw, but here's a link describing the Datejust:

http://www.rolex.com/en/collection/extraordinary-watches/datejust/features/date-calendar.jsp#/en/xml/collection/extraordinary-watches/datejust/features/date-calendar

Post again if you'd like guidance. Short story: Rolex has very efficient windng, nicer bracelets, better variety in dials and metals, very good reliability, all at price.

The Omega AT is a good watch too, with minor issues regarding the movement and a bracelet you'll either love or hate at a lower price. However, the AT is being changed later this year with significant changes, which should be for the better, but the new improvements haven't been time-tested very long.