Is It or Is It Not?
What makes a watch a 36000 BPH watch is the frequency of its movement.
 
While some watches can reliably be identified by having "high frequency", "HF" or "Hi Beat" on their dial or case, this is not definitive. When these high frequency movements were coming to market, many manufacturers were also moving from 18000 BPH movements to 28800 BPH movements, so it is not uncommon to find 28800 VPH watches labelled as high frequency or high beat. Seiko was particularly fond of labeling 28800 BPH watches as hi beat. The only case or face marking which seems to definitively identify a 36000 BPH watch is "36000".  
 
Due to the size of the 36000 VPH movements that have been produced there has never been a women's sized watch made. While some manufacturers made his/hers watches where the men's model featured a high frequency  movement in no case, did the woman's version have the same feature. In general if the case is less than 33mm wide, the watch does not have a high beat movement. 
 
Certain model watches of a certain vintage always have a 36000 VPH movement, so if you look at the watch maker model specific information you may be able to figure out whether it is or isn't.
 
Theoretically the sweep of the second hand on a hi beat watch should be smoother since the hand is indicating smaller fractions of a second ( 18000 BPH = 1/5 sec., 28800 BPH = 1/8 sec., 36000 BPH =1/10 sec.) but in practice, the difference can be too subtle to tell be just looking.
 
The only definitive way in every situation to tell that a watch has a 36000 BPH movement is to put it on a regulator and see what frequency it vibrates at.