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[[File:Ref 116519 hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt= | [[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 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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===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. | ||