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[[File:Ref 116519 hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Reference 116519 with the turquoise Beach dial on its matching blue lizard strap. Bonhams, Hong Kong, 28 May 2024, lot 806.|Reference 116519 with the turquoise Beach dial on its matching blue lizard strap. Bonhams, Hong Kong, 28 May 2024, lot 806.]] | |||
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The 116519 is the 18k white gold, leather-strap Daytona of the in-house cal 4130 generation, the strap counterpart to the bracelet-mounted [[Reference:116509|116509]] and the successor to the Zenith-era [[Reference:16519|16519]]. Christie's dates the launch to Baselworld 2000, where the reference arrived with the rest of the cal 4130 family. Rolex's own catalogue carried it into early 2016, and the ceramic-bezel [[Reference:116519LN|116519LN]] took its place at Baselworld in March 2017. | The 116519 is the 18k white gold, leather-strap Daytona of the in-house cal 4130 generation, the strap counterpart to the bracelet-mounted [[Reference:116509|116509]] and the successor to the Zenith-era [[Reference:16519|16519]]. Christie's dates the launch to Baselworld 2000, where the reference arrived with the rest of the cal 4130 family. Rolex's own catalogue carried it into early 2016, and the ceramic-bezel [[Reference:116519LN|116519LN]] took its place at Baselworld in March 2017. | ||
The dial programme is what the reference is remembered for. This is the Daytona that carried the four pastel "Beach" dials, delivered with colour-matched lizard straps, wallets and presentation boxes, and it is also where Rolex put sodalite, grossular garnet, meteorite and a long run of gem-set layouts on a white gold case. Rolex's published catalogue ran at least sixteen dial codes across the production; only a handful of those code-to-dial names survive in the public record, and the rest have to be read off auction catalogues one watch at a time. | The dial programme is what the reference is remembered for. This is the Daytona that carried the four pastel "Beach" dials, delivered with colour-matched lizard straps, wallets and presentation boxes, and it is also where Rolex put sodalite, grossular garnet, meteorite and a long run of gem-set layouts on a white gold case. Rolex's published catalogue ran at least sixteen dial codes across the production; only a handful of those code-to-dial names survive in the public record, and the rest have to be read off auction catalogues one watch at a time. | ||
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File:Ref 116519 slate.webp|The slate dial, Rolex model code M116519-0160, with Arabic numerals and red chronograph accents on a brown alligator strap. | |||
File:Ref 116519 meteorite.webp|Meteorite dial with Roman numerals and red chronograph hands, on brown alligator. Christie's Hong Kong, 2011. | |||
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===The Beach dials=== | ===The Beach dials=== | ||
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File:Ref 116519 beach.webp|All four Beach dials together: yellow and pink mother-of-pearl, green chrysoprase and turquoise, each on its matching lizard strap. Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2021, lot 2205. | |||
File:Ref 116519 beach-pink.webp|Pink mother-of-pearl on pink lizard, the dial Sotheby's records under the name Candy Rose. | |||
File:Ref 116519 beach-yellow.webp|Yellow mother-of-pearl with its colour-matched lizard box, wallet and chronometer certificate. | |||
File:Ref 116519 beach-green.webp|Green chrysoprase with the green lizard presentation box and a spare strap in the same skin. Bonhams, 14 December 2022, lot 88. | |||
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Four colours make up the Beach series: yellow, pink, turquoise and green. Sotheby's presents Rolex's own names for them as Champagne Nacre and Candy Rose for the two mother-of-pearl dials, Kallait for the turquoise hardstone, and chalcedony for the green, better known to collectors as chrysoprase. Each shipped with a lizard strap and matching packaging in the dial colour, and all four carry Roman numerals. | Four colours make up the Beach series: yellow, pink, turquoise and green. Sotheby's presents Rolex's own names for them as Champagne Nacre and Candy Rose for the two mother-of-pearl dials, Kallait for the turquoise hardstone, and chalcedony for the green, better known to collectors as chrysoprase. Each shipped with a lizard strap and matching packaging in the dial colour, and all four carry Roman numerals. | ||
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===Hardstone and mineral dials=== | ===Hardstone and mineral dials=== | ||
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File:Ref 116519 sodalite.webp|Blue sodalite with Arabic numerals, unworn with box and papers. Christie's Geneva, 2017. | |||
File:Ref 116519 rubellite.webp|Grossular garnet rubellite with diamond hour markers. Christie's Hong Kong, 10 March 2023, lot 2. | |||
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Sodalite is a separate branch and gets conflated with the Beach series constantly. It is a deep blue speckled stone, usually paired with Arabic numerals, and it sits on the standard 116519 with a plain alligator strap and none of the colour-matched lizard kit. Bonhams treats it as a distinct dial; Antiquorum has titled sodalite lots "Blue Daytona Beach", which is where the confusion starts. | Sodalite is a separate branch and gets conflated with the Beach series constantly. It is a deep blue speckled stone, usually paired with Arabic numerals, and it sits on the standard 116519 with a plain alligator strap and none of the colour-matched lizard kit. Bonhams treats it as a distinct dial; Antiquorum has titled sodalite lots "Blue Daytona Beach", which is where the confusion starts. | ||