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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (Panda), reference 126500LN

Rolex

Cosmograph Daytona (Panda)

Ref. 126500LN

$39,400 · AED 144,700

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Case40mm steel
MovementAutomatic
Year2026
ConditionUnworn

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.

Rolex's Cosmograph Daytona (Panda), reference 126500LN, in 40mm steel. Unworn with production year 2026, shown in the exact reference and dial configuration on offer.

Fun fact: Every modern Rolex is a Superlative Chronometer, tested to minus two to plus two seconds a day after casing.

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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