Reference:116500LN: Difference between revisions

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The successor 126500LN has absorbed the waitlist phenomenon without matching the secondary-market peak of its predecessor. That is part of how markets work — and part of why the 116500LN will likely be the one that reads as the definitional ceramic Daytona in ten years of collector retrospection, regardless of whether the 126500LN is the objectively better watch.

~~==Still open==~~

The Panda-vs-Black production split is not publicly documented, and the persistent price differential is the only empirical signal available. The precise end-of-production date is disputed between sources that place it at 27 March 2023 (specific, single-sourced) and those that round to 2023 or 2024. Internal dial-printing drift across the 2016–2023 run is visible on some examples but has not been catalogued into a Mark generation system. The original retail price at discontinuation is cited inconsistently across sources — USD 13,150, USD 14,550, and USD 15,100 all appear in editorial, reflecting price increases across the run. Each of those is open territory rather than settled fact and should be treated accordingly on any specific example or transaction.

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 The successor 126500LN has absorbed the waitlist phenomenon without matching the secondary-market peak of its predecessor. That is part of how markets work — and part of why the 116500LN will likely be the one that reads as the definitional ceramic Daytona in ten years of collector retrospection, regardless of whether the 126500LN is the objectively better watch.
-==Still open==
-The Panda-vs-Black production split is not publicly documented, and the persistent price differential is the only empirical signal available. The precise end-of-production date is disputed between sources that place it at 27 March 2023 (specific, single-sourced) and those that round to 2023 or 2024. Internal dial-printing drift across the 2016–2023 run is visible on some examples but has not been catalogued into a Mark generation system. The original retail price at discontinuation is cited inconsistently across sources — USD 13,150, USD 14,550, and USD 15,100 all appear in editorial, reflecting price increases across the run. Each of those is open territory rather than settled fact and should be treated accordingly on any specific example or transaction.
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