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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (John Mayer), reference 116508

Rolex

Cosmograph Daytona (John Mayer)

Ref. 116508

$75,800 · AED 278,400

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Case40mm 18k yellow gold
DialGreen sunburst
MovementCalibre 4130
ComplicationChronograph
BraceletYellow gold Oyster
Year2018

The Cosmograph Daytona is the most sought after chronograph in the world, born at the racetrack in 1963 and waitlisted at every authorized dealer since. Its tachymeter bezel and tricompax dial define what a driver’s watch looks like.

A Cosmograph Daytona in 40mm 18k yellow gold from 2018, green sunburst on the wrist, chronograph inside. The calibre 4130 movement drives it.

Fun fact: The 116508 was the first yellow gold Daytona on a gold Oyster bracelet with a green dial, a colour Rolex had used on the 50th anniversary Daytona and then, briefly, here. Production stopped in 2023, and the green version now trades above the steel model it once sat beside.

The collection

Cosmograph Daytona

Rolex's chronograph, named for Daytona Beach and read against a tachymetric scale

Rolex introduced the Cosmograph in 1963 and named it for Daytona Beach in Florida, laying it out as a driver's instrument with three counters and a tachymetric scale on the bezel for reading average speed over a measured distance. Screw down pushers arrived on reference 6240 in 1965, sealing the chronograph into the Oyster case. The movement went from hand wound to an automatic based on the Zenith El Primero in 1988, to Rolex's own calibre 4130 in 2000 and the calibre 4131 in 2023. The case grew from 37 mm on the first series to 40 mm with that 1988 generation and has stayed there since, in steel, gold and platinum.

Sizes in the family

40 mm across the current line, 37 mm on the first series references

Who it suits

For a buyer who wants a chronograph rather than a dress watch, and who is choosing on metal rather than on case size.

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