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The 116509 is the full white gold expression of the in-house Daytona generation, and the only cal 4130 Daytona Rolex shipped on a white gold Oyster bracelet from launch. It arrived in 2004, four years after the 116520, 116523, and 116528 opened the cal 4130 era at Baselworld 2000. White gold 40mm case, engraved white gold tachymetre bezel, white gold Oyster bracelet, the same vertical-clutch column-wheel cal 4130 inside. Production ran nearly twenty years before the 126509 took its place with cal 4131. | The 116509 is the full white gold expression of the in-house Daytona generation, and the only cal 4130 Daytona Rolex shipped on a white gold Oyster bracelet from launch. It arrived in 2004, four years after the 116520, 116523, and 116528 opened the cal 4130 era at Baselworld 2000. White gold 40mm case, engraved white gold tachymetre bezel, white gold Oyster bracelet, the same vertical-clutch column-wheel cal 4130 inside. Production ran nearly twenty years before the 126509 took its place with cal 4131. | ||
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=== Meteorite dials === | === Meteorite dials === | ||
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File:Ref 116509 dial-meteorite.webp|alt=Rolex Daytona 116509 meteorite dial|Meteorite dial with applied Roman numerals — Bonhams New Bond Street, December 2020 | |||
File:Ref 116509 dial-meteorite-detail.webp|alt=Widmanstatten pattern on a Rolex Daytona 116509 meteorite dial|Widmanstätten crystalline pattern at macro — Antiquorum Geneva, November 2022 | |||
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The meteorite-dial 116509 is the reference's signature artifact. Each dial is cut from a single iron-nickel meteorite and acid-etched to reveal the Widmanstätten crystalline pattern — a structure that forms only over millions of years of slow cooling in the parent body and cannot be replicated terrestrially. The pattern's geometry is unique to each slice. Antiquorum's Geneva sale of November 2022 catalogued an example first retailed in July 2006, which puts the configuration inside early production and carries it through to discontinuation. | The meteorite-dial 116509 is the reference's signature artifact. Each dial is cut from a single iron-nickel meteorite and acid-etched to reveal the Widmanstätten crystalline pattern — a structure that forms only over millions of years of slow cooling in the parent body and cannot be replicated terrestrially. The pattern's geometry is unique to each slice. Antiquorum's Geneva sale of November 2022 catalogued an example first retailed in July 2006, which puts the configuration inside early production and carries it through to discontinuation. | ||