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The 116508-0013 green sundust is the reference's headline collector variant, and a sharp departure from the cal 4130 palette of champagne, black, white, and mother-of-pearl. Hodinkee's Talking Watches episode featuring John Mayer (2019) singled the watch out as an underappreciated current-production reference, and the secondary market re-rated it in the months that followed. Authorised-dealer waitlists ran for years through the late 2010s and early 2020s, and completed private trades climbed steeply through the 2021–2022 luxury-watch peak before correcting alongside the rest of the modern-Daytona market in 2023. | The 116508-0013 green sundust is the reference's headline collector variant, and a sharp departure from the cal 4130 palette of champagne, black, white, and mother-of-pearl. Hodinkee's Talking Watches episode featuring John Mayer (2019) singled the watch out as an underappreciated current-production reference, and the secondary market re-rated it in the months that followed. Authorised-dealer waitlists ran for years through the late 2010s and early 2020s, and completed private trades climbed steeply through the 2021–2022 luxury-watch peak before correcting alongside the rest of the modern-Daytona market in 2023. | ||
[[File:Ref 116508 dial.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Rolex Daytona 116508 yellow gold Oyster with engraved gold tachymetre bezel, straight-on view|Straight-on studio view of the 116508 in yellow gold with the green sundust dial]] | |||
The "John Mayer" nickname is collector usage rather than a Rolex designation, and Rolex has issued no commentary on the variant's place in its 2016 launch programme. The end-of-production cutover in 2023 closed the window without a successor — the cal 4131 126508 catalogue at launch carried no green sundust dial, which leaves the 116508-0013 as the only Rolex-catalogue green Daytona of any era through that period. | The "John Mayer" nickname is collector usage rather than a Rolex designation, and Rolex has issued no commentary on the variant's place in its 2016 launch programme. The end-of-production cutover in 2023 closed the window without a successor — the cal 4131 126508 catalogue at launch carried no green sundust dial, which leaves the 116508-0013 as the only Rolex-catalogue green Daytona of any era through that period. | ||