Reference:116508: Difference between revisions

The 116508 is the full yellow gold cal 4130 Daytona on a yellow gold Oyster bracelet, with an engraved 18k yellow gold tachymetre bezel — the 2016 successor to the [[Reference:116528|116528]] and the second-to-last engraved-gold-bezel yellow gold Daytona Rolex produced before the line moved to Cerachrom. Same 40mm case profile as the rest of the cal 4130 family, same vertical-clutch column-wheel chronograph, same 72-hour power reserve, executed in 18k yellow gold from end-link to bezel. The difference from the 116528 is a refreshed dial programme — Rolex used the 116508 launch to introduce the green sundust dial that John Mayer would single out three years later in his 2019 Hodinkee Talking Watches appearance, and the meteorite dial that joined the catalogue in 2021.

The 116508 sits in the editorial scope on the same basis as the [[Reference:116500LN|116500LN]]: it is the gold-bracelet half of the cal 4130 generation, discontinued at the cal 4131 successor's launch, and now closed. Production ran from 2016 to 2023, when the 126508 took its place with the Cerachrom monobloc bezel that the steel 116500LN had carried since 2016 and the precious-metal references had picked up gradually in the years that followed.

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