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The Rolex Daytona
An absolute icon: the Rolex Chronograph Daytona. From stainless steel, vintage editions, Paul Newman or the gold or platinum Daytona: all of these watches are really popular amongst enthusiasts and collectors. And it might even be a profitable investment, even with today’s pricing.
The history of the Rolex Daytona
The Swiss watchmaker developed the Rolex Daytona back in 1963, especially designed for motorsport. It was even named after the famous racetrack in Florida, Daytona Beach.
The Daytona is one of the most iconic and most sought-after watches in history. With this demand, prices are raising for the pre-owned, vintage or new Rolex Daytona’s. This wasn’t always the case, because in the early 1960s, and even up to the 1980s, nobody wanted to buy a Rolex Daytona. Can you imagine that, with the pricing nowadays?
The iconic Rolex Daytona is available in stainless steel, gold, gold/steel and platinum. The two-tone gold/steel is one of the most affordable versions of the Rolex Daytona, while the stainless steel is extremely popular and will sell for multiple times of their official list price at your local authorized dealer. If you don’t want to wait years on your dream Daytona, you can easily find these watches on Wristler, but expect to pay a premium.
Materials & colors on the Rolex Daytona
For starters, the stainless-steel Rolex Daytona is probably the most iconic and sought after one, bearing reference 126500LN, with the black ceramic bezel, a white dial and black sub-dials (which is called the Panda) and the Reverse Panda, with a black dial and white sub-dials. The slightly older reference, which is the 116500LN, is also available in the same configuration. These stainless-steel models sell for roughly €25.000 up to €30.000 on the secondary market.
If you’re a lover of some shiny gold on the wrist, the Daytona might be an option. The two-tone 116523 or the newer 126523 are the two-tone watches within the Daytona catalog, either with a champagne, black, white or silver dial, and optional with diamond hour markers.
You would expect these pieces to be expensive, but these are actually less expensive compared to the full stainless-steel pieces, around €16.000 up to €23.000.
When it comes to full-gold, or even platinum, these are the watches to break the bank. Starting at around €35.000 for the white gold Daytona on Oysterflex, up to €500.000 for the RBOW rose gold Daytona.
Prices of the Rolex Daytona
You might need to safe up a little money if you want to get your hands on a beautiful Rolex Daytona on the free market. Prices starting at around €20.000 for a reference 116503 two-tone yellow gold with steel Rolex Daytona with a white dial.
If you’re looking for the stainless steel with ceramic bezel, you need a bit more money to spend: €25.000-€30.000 nowadays. There is one Daytona that stands out pricewise: the reference 116595RBOW starting at around €500.000.
Different Rolex Daytona’s
You can find so many different Rolex Daytona’s nowadays that we need to specify and help you a bit with your choice when shopping on Wristler. You could probably look at the reference 116508 in 18-karat yellow gold with a gold bezel and (money) green dial, costing around €75.000. There are some Gold Daytona’s on the Oysterflex bracelet: a rubber bracelet with thin metal inserts. Ideal for summer use. Prices of these Oysterflex Daytona’s can be found around €35.000.
One of the coolest models from the Daytona collection is the meteorite dial. Rolex started producing these dials from 2021 and every dial is unique with a metallic sheen.
The case of these watches is available in white, yellow or rose gold (also called everose). Prices of these watches can be found around €150.000 to €200.000. Prices skyrocketed of these meteorite dials, since Rolex discontinued these models. Instead, they came up with the latest addition to the Daytona family, being a Daytona Le Mans (full white gold – black dial version, setting you back around €150.000, and the diamond studded Daytona with a Mother of Pearl (MOP) dial, setting you back close to €90.000.
The Paul Newman Daytona
Vintage models of the Rolex Daytona are extremely popular. They are often more expensive compared to their modern cousins. One of these vintage watches is with a brilliant story: the Paul Newman Daytona.
The main feature of this Paul Newman Rolex Daytona is the multicolor exotic dial with a contrasting minute track on its dial. The subdials are also unique with art-deco numerals. Because these watches were slow sellers, Rolex produced them in limited quantities. The story about these Paul Newman watches is that Paul Newman, a former race driver, was wearing a Daytona every day until his death. If you are on the market for a Paul Newman Rolex Daytona, bring at least €150.000 with you to purchase a piece.
One of the most expensive Rolex watches of all times, was the Paul Newman Daytona given by his wife Joanne Woodward. This particular watch sold at an auction for 17.75 million Dollars.
Before the Daytona was produced, there are some ‘pre-Daytona’s’ available which are highly sought after by enthusiasts. It was named the Cosmograph in the early 1950s and are limited. Prices for the stainless-steel models vary between €40.000 and €50.000.
Classic mistakes on the Daytona
It might sound a bit wrong, but Rolex has made some mistakes over the past decades when producing their sporty chronograph. Nowadays, these mistakes are worth a fortune. For instance, the Daytona ‘Patrizzi’ Dial, which uses a different kind of material for the sub-dials, resulting in a heavily chocolate or brown colored sub-dial instead of being white or cream.
These production mistakes will set you back easily twice the amount compared to the regular one. Crazy, isn’t it? The same goes for the ‘Inverted 6’ Daytona, which has the 6 in the lower sub-dial upside-down. Costly? Around €4.000 more expensive compared to a regular Daytona.
Get your hands on a Daytona
Just like the case with the other models in the collection from Rolex, it is really hard to buy one from your local authorized dealer. You might get lucky when you can buy a Submariner, GMT-Master or a Datejust. If you want to get your hands on a Rolex Daytona, we advise you to look on Wristler for the desired model. The in-house caliber used in the Daytona is the 4130 with a 72-hour power reserve, and the design is so recognizable. Enthusiasts and collectors are always on the lookout for these Daytona’s as they seem to rise in price every month. Most prices of these watches increased over 100% in the past three years.
If you’re a lover of vintage watches, take a look at the 4-digit reference numbers for the Rolex Daytona as they are the first to be produced back in the day, around 1963. The newer models from the Rolex collection use a five- or six-digit reference number. And you can probably guess that when it’s called the RBOW, it has something to do with a rainbow.