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[[File:Ref 116509 dial-sodalite-aph.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Daytona 116509 sodalite dial with diamond indexes|Sodalite dial with diamond-set indexes and the APH spacing, circa 2011 — Bonhams Hong Kong, February 2026]] | |||
Production runs 2004 to roughly 2023, an unusually long run on a single reference number even by Daytona standards. Within that span the watch tracks the same cal 4130 platform revisions as the rest of the gen-1 family — there is no distinct 116509 generation chronology, only the shared movement, lume, and clasp updates that swept across the cal 4130 catalogue. | Production runs 2004 to roughly 2023, an unusually long run on a single reference number even by Daytona standards. Within that span the watch tracks the same cal 4130 platform revisions as the rest of the gen-1 family — there is no distinct 116509 generation chronology, only the shared movement, lume, and clasp updates that swept across the cal 4130 catalogue. | ||
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[[File:Ref 116509 dial-chrysoprase.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Daytona 116509 chrysoprase stone dial|Chrysoprase stone dial with applied Roman numerals — Christie's Dubai Edit, October 2022]] | [[File:Ref 116509 dial-chrysoprase.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Daytona 116509 chrysoprase stone dial|Chrysoprase stone dial with applied Roman numerals — Christie's Dubai Edit, October 2022]] | ||
[[File:Ref 116509 dial-turquoise.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Daytona 116509 turquoise stone dial|Turquoise stone dial — Christie's Dubai Edit, October 2023]] | [[File:Ref 116509 dial-turquoise.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Daytona 116509 turquoise stone dial|Turquoise stone dial — Christie's Dubai Edit, October 2023]] | ||
The 116509 carries the broadest dial catalogue of any cal 4130 generation reference. Twenty years of production on a single reference number, combined with the white gold case's higher catalogue tier, produced a dial range that runs from sober black to figured stone to diamond-set. Several dials are known from a handful of examples only. | The 116509 carries the broadest dial catalogue of any cal 4130 generation reference. Twenty years of production on a single reference number, combined with the white gold case's higher catalogue tier, produced a dial range that runs from sober black to figured stone to diamond-set. Several dials are known from a handful of examples only. | ||