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The 116506 is the first platinum Cosmograph Daytona. Rolex unveiled it at Baselworld 2013 to mark the Daytona's fiftieth anniversary, and it ran from that launch through to its discontinuation in March 2023, when the 126506 took over with caliber 4131 and a sapphire caseback. Case and bracelet are 950 platinum, the dial is the ice-blue lacquer Rolex reserves for its platinum references, and the bezel is a chestnut brown Cerachrom monobloc with its tachymeter scale deposited in platinum by PVD. Inside is caliber 4130, unchanged from the steel and gold references of the same generation. The Everose-gold 116515LN had already brought Cerachrom to the Cosmograph in 2011; the 116506 made the ceramic bezel part of the platinum anniversary configuration. | The 116506 is the first platinum Cosmograph Daytona. Rolex unveiled it at Baselworld 2013 to mark the Daytona's fiftieth anniversary, and it ran from that launch through to its discontinuation in March 2023, when the 126506 took over with caliber 4131 and a sapphire caseback. Case and bracelet are 950 platinum, the dial is the ice-blue lacquer Rolex reserves for its platinum references, and the bezel is a chestnut brown Cerachrom monobloc with its tachymeter scale deposited in platinum by PVD. Inside is caliber 4130, unchanged from the steel and gold references of the same generation. The Everose-gold 116515LN had already brought Cerachrom to the Cosmograph in 2011; the 116506 made the ceramic bezel part of the platinum anniversary configuration. | ||
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The watch press came to Baselworld expecting a redesigned anniversary Daytona and got a colour scheme instead. Richard Lee's launch coverage at SJX records the question circulating the halls that week — what was going on with the blue and brown. Robert-Jan Broer's Fratello piece from the same week reads the decision as Rolex leaving the 40mm Cosmograph alone and putting it in 950 platinum with a palette no Rolex chronograph had carried before. The combination has since become one of the most recognisable in the modern Daytona catalogue. | The watch press came to Baselworld expecting a redesigned anniversary Daytona and got a colour scheme instead. Richard Lee's launch coverage at SJX records the question circulating the halls that week — what was going on with the blue and brown. Robert-Jan Broer's Fratello piece from the same week reads the decision as Rolex leaving the 40mm Cosmograph alone and putting it in 950 platinum with a palette no Rolex chronograph had carried before. The combination has since become one of the most recognisable in the modern Daytona catalogue. | ||
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