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= Rolex Cosmograph Daytona = | == Rolex Cosmograph Daytona == | ||
The Cosmograph Daytona is the chronograph reference that took Rolex from a respected sports-watch maker to the maker of the most heavily-traded vintage watch on the secondary market. Rolex introduced the line in 1963 as a chronograph with the tachymetre scale moved off the dial onto a contrast-print bezel, gave it the Daytona name in honour of the Florida endurance race Rolex began sponsoring the same year, and ran the manual-wind generation through to 1988 — when the Zenith El Primero base produced the first automatic Daytona. The in-house cal 4130 followed in 2000, and the steel-bezel reference closed in 2016 with the introduction of the ceramic-bezel 116500LN. | The Cosmograph Daytona is the chronograph reference that took Rolex from a respected sports-watch maker to the maker of the most heavily-traded vintage watch on the secondary market. Rolex introduced the line in 1963 as a chronograph with the tachymetre scale moved off the dial onto a contrast-print bezel, gave it the Daytona name in honour of the Florida endurance race Rolex began sponsoring the same year, and ran the manual-wind generation through to 1988 — when the Zenith El Primero base produced the first automatic Daytona. The in-house cal 4130 followed in 2000, and the steel-bezel reference closed in 2016 with the introduction of the ceramic-bezel 116500LN. | ||