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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (Black), reference 126505

Rolex

Cosmograph Daytona (Black)

Ref. 126505

$53,600 · AED 196,800

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Case40mm 18ct Everose gold
DialBlack, Sundust counters
MovementCalibre 4131
ComplicationChronograph
BraceletOyster, 18ct Everose gold
Water100m
ConditionPre-owned
Year2024

Gold Daytonas go back to the model's first decade, and Rolex added Everose, its own rose gold alloy, to the range in 2008. The 2023 reference 126505 continues it with calibre 4131.

This Rolex Cosmograph Daytona wears a 40mm 18ct Everose gold case and a black dial with Sundust counters. Calibre 4131 inside, on an 18ct Everose gold Oyster bracelet.

Fun fact: Everose gold includes a little platinum in the alloy, which keeps its colour from fading over the years.

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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