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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (Meteorite), reference 116515

Rolex

Cosmograph Daytona (Meteorite)

Ref. 116515

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Case40mm 18k rose gold
DialBlack meteorite
MovementCalibre 4130
ComplicationChronograph
StrapRose gold Oysterflex
Year2022

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 presented in 40mm 18k rose gold with a chronograph, finished with a black meteorite display. The calibre 4130 movement drives it.

Fun fact: The 116515 put a Cerachrom bezel on Everose gold and hung it from an Oysterflex rubber strap, the first time Rolex dressed a Daytona for a wrist that sweats. The strap hides a titanium blade, which is why it does not sag.

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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