If you ask any serious watch collectors that which watches is the most difficult to get and the let people swooning, I believe many people will say – Rolex Cosmograph Daytona steel, now the model is 116520 put on sale and this watch also has a sacred status. No other watches can be compared. This Daytona watch with a variety of material but the stainless steel (including the white dial plate and black dial plate two visions) is the most popular and special for collectors.
The 116520 has two different visions – white dial plate and black dial plate. Rolex not publish the number of the production, but it’s said the yield of Daytona in the top few. In my personal preference, I prefer the black dial version. This is because the classic Rolex watches are mostly black dial, such as the black ghost.
The Daytona named after the famous Daytona International Speedway, in 1962, Daytona Continental was formally organized and became very important Competition in the racing sports. The winner of this Competition not only can get a trophy also can win a Rolex watch. In 1963, the Rolex special launched a new generation of Chronograph for the racer and this is Cosmograph wristwatch and this watch become the big prize for the winner of Daytona Competition. Soon after, in order to emphasize the relationship between Rolex and the well-known Motorsport, Rolex specially called this watch Cosmograph Daytona.
116520 is a new generation of Daytona which launched in 2000 by rolex. The key of this watch is using 4130 chronograph movement which research and development by Rolex and to replace the Zenith chronograph movement of Daytona16520.
Just like the other oyster professional series watches, this Cosmograph Daytona 116520 is designed to be a strong function watch. Concrete saying, as the Chronograph, Daytona can count the operation time and average speed through sillometer scale watch bezel. The 40mm oyster watchcase combines with crown Trip lock that the water resistant to 100m (ahout 330 feet) of this Daytona. By the way, this Daytona without calendar display.