Reference:116518LN: Difference between revisions

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<small>[[Reference:daytona|Daytona]] › '''116518LN'''</small>

[[File:Ref 116518LN hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Reference 116518LN in 18k yellow gold with the champagne-and-black dial collectors call the Pikachu. Rolex press image, Baselworld 2017.|Reference 116518LN in 18k yellow gold with the champagne-and-black dial collectors call the Pikachu. Rolex press image, Baselworld 2017.]]

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The 116518LN is the 18k yellow gold Daytona Rolex introduced at Baselworld in March 2017, pairing a black monobloc Cerachrom bezel with the Oysterflex strap. It replaced the engraved-gold-bezel, alligator-strap [[Reference:116518|116518]] and shares five characters of reference number with it while changing almost everything a buyer looks at. Rolex's own launch page put it alongside two siblings in white gold and Everose, the [[Reference:116519LN|116519LN]] and the [[Reference:116515LN|116515LN]], as the first Daytonas ever sold on an elastomer strap.

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Rolex's name for the launch dial is "champagne and black", later restated as "golden and black": a sunray champagne face with three snailed black counters, gold hands and gold hour markers edged in black PVD. Collectors named it the Pikachu, and the nickname stuck hard enough that it now travels ahead of the reference number. The 116518LN left the catalogue in 2023, when the cal 4131 generation replaced every Daytona at once.

[[File:Ref 116518LN hero.webp|thumb|right|340px|alt=Reference 116518LN yellow gold Daytona with champagne and black Pikachu dial on Oysterflex strap|Reference 116518LN in 18k yellow gold with the champagne-and-black dial collectors call the Pikachu. Rolex press image, Baselworld 2017.]]

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 <small>[[Reference:daytona|Daytona]] › '''116518LN'''</small>
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+[[File:Ref 116518LN hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Reference 116518LN in 18k yellow gold with the champagne-and-black dial collectors call the Pikachu. Rolex press image, Baselworld 2017.|Reference 116518LN in 18k yellow gold with the champagne-and-black dial collectors call the Pikachu. Rolex press image, Baselworld 2017.]]
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 The 116518LN is the 18k yellow gold Daytona Rolex introduced at Baselworld in March 2017, pairing a black monobloc Cerachrom bezel with the Oysterflex strap. It replaced the engraved-gold-bezel, alligator-strap [[Reference:116518|116518]] and shares five characters of reference number with it while changing almost everything a buyer looks at. Rolex's own launch page put it alongside two siblings in white gold and Everose, the [[Reference:116519LN|116519LN]] and the [[Reference:116515LN|116515LN]], as the first Daytonas ever sold on an elastomer strap.
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 Rolex's name for the launch dial is "champagne and black", later restated as "golden and black": a sunray champagne face with three snailed black counters, gold hands and gold hour markers edged in black PVD. Collectors named it the Pikachu, and the nickname stuck hard enough that it now travels ahead of the reference number. The 116518LN left the catalogue in 2023, when the cal 4131 generation replaced every Daytona at once.
-[[File:Ref 116518LN hero.webp|thumb|right|340px|alt=Reference 116518LN yellow gold Daytona with champagne and black Pikachu dial on Oysterflex strap|Reference 116518LN in 18k yellow gold with the champagne-and-black dial collectors call the Pikachu. Rolex press image, Baselworld 2017.]]
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