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The 116515LN is the first Cerachrom-bezel Daytona in any case material. Rolex launched it at Baselworld 2011 in Everose gold on a leather strap with an Everose Oysterlock fold-over clasp, five years before the steel 116500LN brought ceramic to the entry-level Daytona. The black Cerachrom monobloc tachymeter bezel that defines every modern ceramic Daytona made its debut here, on the warm pink case Rolex had introduced three years earlier on the engraved-bezel 116505. The LN suffix — lunette noire, black bezel — separates it from the engraved-Everose 116505 it ran alongside. | The 116515LN is the first Cerachrom-bezel Daytona in any case material. Rolex launched it at Baselworld 2011 in Everose gold on a leather strap with an Everose Oysterlock fold-over clasp, five years before the steel 116500LN brought ceramic to the entry-level Daytona. The black Cerachrom monobloc tachymeter bezel that defines every modern ceramic Daytona made its debut here, on the warm pink case Rolex had introduced three years earlier on the engraved-bezel 116505. The LN suffix — lunette noire, black bezel — separates it from the engraved-Everose 116505 it ran alongside. | ||
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In 2017 Rolex moved the watch from leather to Oysterflex and kept the reference number, which made the 116515LN the first Daytona on Oysterflex, two years after the strap debuted on the Yacht-Master 116655 in 2015. Both strap eras share the same case, movement, and bezel across the reference's twelve-year production run (2011–2023), so the strap is the practical generation marker. Caliber 4130 runs the whole span, the first in-house Rolex chronograph and the movement behind every modern Daytona since 2000. | In 2017 Rolex moved the watch from leather to Oysterflex and kept the reference number, which made the 116515LN the first Daytona on Oysterflex, two years after the strap debuted on the Yacht-Master 116655 in 2015. Both strap eras share the same case, movement, and bezel across the reference's twelve-year production run (2011–2023), so the strap is the practical generation marker. Caliber 4130 runs the whole span, the first in-house Rolex chronograph and the movement behind every modern Daytona since 2000. | ||
==Core facts== | ==Core facts== | ||