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The 16519 is the white-gold Zenith Daytona, produced from 1989 to 2000 on a leather strap with an 18k white gold deployant buckle. It is the rarest precious-metal Zenith Daytona in the family. The steel 16520 carried the volume, the yellow gold 16518 (leather) and 16528 (bracelet) carried the visibility, and the white gold 16519 sat off to one side as the understated choice. Across an eleven-year run it shared cal 4030 and the canonical seven-mark dial progression with its siblings, and added a small set of white-gold-specific dial variants — Arabic numerals, mother-of-pearl, sodalite, lapis lazuli, salmon, chrysoprase, meteorite — that exist almost nowhere else in the Daytona line. | The 16519 is the white-gold Zenith Daytona, produced from 1989 to 2000 on a leather strap with an 18k white gold deployant buckle. It is the rarest precious-metal Zenith Daytona in the family. The steel 16520 carried the volume, the yellow gold 16518 (leather) and 16528 (bracelet) carried the visibility, and the white gold 16519 sat off to one side as the understated choice. Across an eleven-year run it shared cal 4030 and the canonical seven-mark dial progression with its siblings, and added a small set of white-gold-specific dial variants — Arabic numerals, mother-of-pearl, sodalite, lapis lazuli, salmon, chrysoprase, meteorite — that exist almost nowhere else in the Daytona line. | ||
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