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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (Champagne), reference 126508

Rolex

Cosmograph Daytona (Champagne)

Ref. 126508

$72,600 · AED 266,600

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Case40mm 18ct yellow gold
DialChampagne, black counters
MovementCalibre 4131
ComplicationChronograph
BraceletOyster, 18ct yellow gold
Water100m
ConditionUnworn
Year2025

Gold Daytonas go back to the model's earliest years, and the 2023 reference 126508 brought calibre 4131 and a refined case to the yellow gold version. On this champagne dial the counters are black.

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

Fun fact: The Daytona is named after Daytona Beach in Florida, where Rolex has been title sponsor of the 24 hour race since 1992.

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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