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The 116519LN is the white gold Cerachrom Daytona on Oysterflex. It launched at Baselworld 2017, six years after the 2011 Everose 116515LN brought ceramic to the Daytona line, and one year after the steel 116500LN took the same Cerachrom architecture to the everyday catalogue. Forty millimetre white gold case, black monobloc Cerachrom bezel, the cal 4130 inside, Oysterflex strap from inception. Production ran six years before the 2023 cal 4131 transition. | The 116519LN is the white gold Cerachrom Daytona on Oysterflex. It launched at Baselworld 2017, six years after the 2011 Everose 116515LN brought ceramic to the Daytona line, and one year after the steel 116500LN took the same Cerachrom architecture to the everyday catalogue. Forty millimetre white gold case, black monobloc Cerachrom bezel, the cal 4130 inside, Oysterflex strap from inception. Production ran six years before the 2023 cal 4131 transition. | ||
== Core facts == | == Core facts == | ||
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== Dial map == | == Dial map == | ||
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File:Ref 116519LN dial-meteorite.webp|alt=Rolex Daytona 116519LN meteorite dial|Meteorite dial with black sub-registers, Rolex catalogue configuration m116519ln-0038 | |||
File:Ref 116519LN dial-black-diamond.webp|alt=Rolex Daytona 116519LN black dial with diamond hour markers|Black dial with diamond hour markers and silver sub-registers, catalogue configuration m116519ln-0025 | |||
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The 116519LN dial catalogue runs narrower than the longer-running 116520 or 116509 — six years against sixteen or twenty, with the white gold Cerachrom configuration sitting at the catalogue's upper-mid tier instead of the mainstream. Dial variants documented across the production run: | The 116519LN dial catalogue runs narrower than the longer-running 116520 or 116509 — six years against sixteen or twenty, with the white gold Cerachrom configuration sitting at the catalogue's upper-mid tier instead of the mainstream. Dial variants documented across the production run: | ||
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== Case, bezel, crystal, and crown == | == Case, bezel, crystal, and crown == | ||
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File:Ref 116519LN bezel-detail.webp|alt=Black monobloc Cerachrom tachymetre bezel on a Rolex Daytona 116519LN|Black monobloc Cerachrom tachymetre bezel with platinum-filled numerals against the white gold case | |||
File:Ref 116519LN caseback.webp|alt=Rolex Daytona 116519LN white gold caseback with 750 hallmark|White gold caseback carrying the 750 hallmark, with the Oysterflex blade lugs either side | |||
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The 116519LN case is 40mm in 18k white gold — the same case forging as the engraved-bezel 116519 and 116509. White gold cases in Rolex's modern catalogue generally run closer to the marketed 40mm than the steel forgings the 116520 article documents at 38.5mm measured (Fratello's Ben Hodges, 2021), though no published caliper measurement of the 116519LN exists to confirm it. Lug-to-lug tracks the rest of the gen-1 family at 46mm. | The 116519LN case is 40mm in 18k white gold — the same case forging as the engraved-bezel 116519 and 116509. White gold cases in Rolex's modern catalogue generally run closer to the marketed 40mm than the steel forgings the 116520 article documents at 38.5mm measured (Fratello's Ben Hodges, 2021), though no published caliper measurement of the 116519LN exists to confirm it. Lug-to-lug tracks the rest of the gen-1 family at 46mm. | ||