Cosmograph Daytona (Oysterflex)

Name: Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (Oysterflex)
Brand: Rolex
SKU: 126518LN
Availability: PreOrder

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Case18k yellow gold

DialBlack

MovementAutomatic

BraceletOysterflex

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 (Oysterflex) in 18k yellow gold.

Fun fact: The 126518LN pairs a full yellow gold Daytona with the Oysterflex, a rubber coated blade bracelet Rolex engineered so a gold sports watch could weigh almost nothing on the wrist.

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.

tachymetric scale on the bezel
three counters at 3, 6 and 9
screw down pushers
no date window

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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Cosmograph Daytona (Oysterflex)

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Sizes in the family

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