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== Core facts == | ==Core facts== | ||
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== Where it sits in the line == | ==Where it sits in the line== | ||
The 116520 succeeds the 16520, the Zenith-based Daytona sold from 1988 into the 1999–2000 transition. The broad case layout remains familiar: an Oyster case, screw-down pushers and an engraved steel tachymeter bezel. The major change is the movement: caliber 4030 gave way to Rolex caliber 4130. | The 116520 succeeds the 16520, the Zenith-based Daytona sold from 1988 into the 1999–2000 transition. The broad case layout remains familiar: an Oyster case, screw-down pushers and an engraved steel tachymeter bezel. The major change is the movement: caliber 4030 gave way to Rolex caliber 4130. | ||
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== Production outline == | ==Production outline== | ||
Production runs from 2000 to 2016, sixteen continuous years on a single reference number. Within that span a handful of small revisions mark out internal generations. | Production runs from 2000 to 2016, sixteen continuous years on a single reference number. Within that span a handful of small revisions mark out internal generations. | ||
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== Movement notes == | ==Movement notes== | ||
Caliber 4130 is the movement used in this reference. Rolex launched it in 2000 after describing a five-year development cycle. Earlier Daytonas used outside chronograph bases: the Valjoux 72 family powered the manual-wind models from 1963 through 1988, followed by the Zenith El Primero base in caliber 4030 from 1988 through 1999. The 4130 was Rolex's first wholly in-house Daytona chronograph movement. | |||
Caliber 4130 is the movement used in this reference. | |||
The architecture matters. Cal 4130 uses a vertical-clutch chronograph coupling: two stacked discs engage along their flat faces in place of the rocking pinion of a horizontal clutch. This design is intended to reduce seconds-hand jitter and disturbance when the chronograph starts. Paul Boutros, writing in the third part of Hodinkee's Daytona dissection, reported a seven-day wear test with frequent chronograph use. A column wheel handles the start-stop-reset switching. | The architecture matters. Cal 4130 uses a vertical-clutch chronograph coupling: two stacked discs engage along their flat faces in place of the rocking pinion of a horizontal clutch. This design is intended to reduce seconds-hand jitter and disturbance when the chronograph starts. Paul Boutros, writing in the third part of Hodinkee's Daytona dissection, reported a seven-day wear test with frequent chronograph use. A column wheel handles the start-stop-reset switching. | ||
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== Dial map == | ==Dial map== | ||
===Serial / year / dial / lume / bracelet=== | |||
=== Serial / year / dial / lume / bracelet === | |||
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! Year !! Dial !! Lume !! Bracelet !! End links !! Notes | ! Year !! Dial !! Lume !! Bracelet !! End links !! Notes | ||
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=== The cream "Panna" dial === | ===The cream "Panna" dial=== | ||
Rolex catalogues describe the 116520 with a white dial. Collectors use “cream” or “Panna” for white dials that changed over time, drifting off-white, then to cream, and on the furthest-gone examples to a flat mustard or citrus yellow, with the silver sub-dial rings warming toward brass alongside it. | Rolex catalogues describe the 116520 with a white dial. Collectors use “cream” or “Panna” for white dials that changed over time, drifting off-white, then to cream, and on the furthest-gone examples to a flat mustard or citrus yellow, with the silver sub-dial rings warming toward brass alongside it. | ||
Several auction houses place the strongest concentration in 2000–2002, on P, K and Y serials, while other catalogued examples fall outside that window. Christie’s puts it as "only specimens manufactured between 2000 and 2002 within the serial number ranges P, K and Y". Phillips has printed the same range across sales from 2018 onward. Antiquorum’s Geneva lot of November 2021 narrows it to "only 3 reference letters P, K and Y", and Artcurial goes tighter still in January 2023, restricting the change to the earliest examples of the reference and above all to the P series. Owner reports run wider than the catalogues do, with F-series examples surfacing often enough to be worth noting, and Sotheby’s has itself catalogued a "Citrus" example as circa 2003, outside the window it otherwise gives. The phenomenon was documented in print early: both Sotheby’s and Antiquorum point their bidders at page 71 of Pucci Papaleo and Paolo Gobbi’s ''Ultimate Rolex Daytona'' (Pucci Papaleo Editore, 2010). | Several auction houses place the strongest concentration in 2000–2002, on P, K and Y serials, while other catalogued examples fall outside that window. Christie’s puts it as "only specimens manufactured between 2000 and 2002 within the serial number ranges P, K and Y". Phillips has printed the same range across sales from 2018 onward. Antiquorum’s Geneva lot of November 2021 narrows it to "only 3 reference letters P, K and Y", and Artcurial goes tighter still in January 2023, restricting the change to the earliest examples of the reference and above all to the P series. Owner reports run wider than the catalogues do, with F-series examples surfacing often enough to be worth noting, and Sotheby’s has itself catalogued a "Citrus" example as circa 2003, outside the window it otherwise gives. The phenomenon was documented in print early: both Sotheby’s and Antiquorum point their bidders at page 71 of Pucci Papaleo and Paolo Gobbi’s ''Ultimate Rolex Daytona'' (Pucci Papaleo Editore, 2010). | ||
Auction houses offer several explanations for the cream change. Christie’s attributes it to “a natural defect in the protective varnish coating”. Phillips has described it as “a defect in some batches of paint used for the white dial” (2021), the nature of the lacquer (2022), and “the material’s nature” (2024). These catalogue descriptions are not supported by a Rolex technical statement or a published analysis of an affected dial. Ultraviolet exposure may affect how far an example changes, but Antiquorum has sold cream and lemon 116520s as new old stock with factory stickers still in place, including one with its caseback sticker intact. Stickered examples that stayed white also occur, so exposure alone does not explain the record. Christie’s describes the hue change as random from one watch to another; catalogue provenance therefore remains more useful than a loupe for identifying an original cream-dial example. | |||
The naming has not settled either. “Panna” is collector usage rather than a Rolex designation. Phillips uses “Panna”, while Sotheby’s has used “Citrus”, Christie’s “mustard”, Antiquorum “lemon” and Artcurial “Panna Limone”. These labels describe auction or collector language, not separate Rolex references. | The naming has not settled either. “Panna” is collector usage rather than a Rolex designation. Phillips uses “Panna”, while Sotheby’s has used “Citrus”, Christie’s “mustard”, Antiquorum “lemon” and Artcurial “Panna Limone”. These labels describe auction or collector language, not separate Rolex references. | ||
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== Case, bezel, crystal, and crown == | ==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown== | ||
The case is steel, marketed as 40mm, with an engraved tachymetre bezel and a flat sapphire crystal. Ben Hodges, writing for Fratello in 2021, ran a caliper across the steel case and recorded 38.5mm, attributing the gap to Rolex's case-machining tolerances. Gold and platinum Daytonas of the same generation measure closer to the marketed figure; the gap is specific to the steel case. Rolex markets the case as 40mm, while Fratello's caliper measurement recorded approximately 38.5mm. | |||
The case is steel, marketed as 40mm, with an engraved tachymetre bezel and a flat sapphire crystal. Ben Hodges, writing for Fratello in 2021, ran a caliper across the steel case and recorded 38.5mm, attributing the gap to Rolex's case-machining tolerances. Gold and platinum Daytonas of the same generation measure closer to the marketed figure; the gap is specific to the steel case. | |||
[[File:Ref 116520 case-asymmetric-lugs.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Fratello's caliper-measured asymmetric lug — 38.5mm true case width|Fratello's caliper-measured asymmetric lug — 38.5mm true case width]] | [[File:Ref 116520 case-asymmetric-lugs.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Fratello's caliper-measured asymmetric lug — 38.5mm true case width|Fratello's caliper-measured asymmetric lug — 38.5mm true case width]] | ||
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== Bracelets, end links, and clasps == | ==Bracelets, end links, and clasps== | ||
The bracelet reference is 78490, a steel Oyster bracelet documented on the 116520. Listings sometimes confuse it with other six-digit Oyster references, so the bracelet and clasp markings should be read together. | The bracelet reference is 78490, a steel Oyster bracelet documented on the 116520. Listings sometimes confuse it with other six-digit Oyster references, so the bracelet and clasp markings should be read together. | ||
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== Special branches == | ==Special branches== | ||
The APH error dial is a documented printing variant. Baker describes it as a typographic accident in which the kerning of the Cosmograph text shifted on one run of dials and remained in later examples. Auction catalogues treat it as a distinct variant. A 2018 Sotheby's lot of a white APH 116520 with blue lume is one documented sale example. | |||
The APH error dial is | |||
The gap in COSMOGRAPH is the easy tell, but Phillips notes two companion tells on many late APH dials: the O in OYSTER takes a shape closer to a zero, and the horizontal spacing across OYSTER PERPETUAL runs wider than on earlier standard dials. Those details matter when checking loose claims, since APH names one specific printing error and gets applied loosely to any late 116520 dial with blue lume. | The gap in COSMOGRAPH is the easy tell, but Phillips notes two companion tells on many late APH dials: the O in OYSTER takes a shape closer to a zero, and the horizontal spacing across OYSTER PERPETUAL runs wider than on earlier standard dials. Those details matter when checking loose claims, since APH names one specific printing error and gets applied loosely to any late 116520 dial with blue lume. | ||
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== Historical market and auction record == | ==Historical market and auction record== | ||
Fratello recorded a UK owner’s 2014 retail figure and a reported two-year authorised-dealer wait. WatchTime reported used-market prices in 2016. These are dated observations, not current guidance. | Fratello recorded a UK owner’s 2014 retail figure and a reported two-year authorised-dealer wait. WatchTime reported used-market prices in 2016. These are dated observations, not current guidance. | ||
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== Related references == | ==Related references== | ||
* [[Reference:116528|Daytona 116528]], 2000–2016 | * [[Reference:116528|Daytona 116528]], 2000–2016 | ||
* [[Reference:116518|Daytona 116518]], 2000–2015 | * [[Reference:116518|Daytona 116518]], 2000–2015 | ||