Some may say it looks like an old man’s watch, but this has to be one of the hottest Rolex’s in yellow gold to hit the market, ever. The green dial along with the full yellow gold case and bracelet creates an aura of money around whoever wears the watch on their wrist, including Mr. John Mayer himself. The Daytona is an amazing chronograph that was designed to be the ultimate timing tool for endurance racing drivers. More than 50 years after its creation, the Cosmograph Daytona remains in a class of its own among sports chronographs and continues to transcend time. This watch was bought used on 07/04/22 and comes with all boxes, both inner and outer along with full authentication papers and cards.

I have greatly enjoyed wearing this watch, the 40mm face makes it easy to wear on your wrist and the weight of the yellow gold isn’t too overpowering. The look this watch gets is unlike any other I have seen before, people both young and old, knowing and unknowing come up and ask what piece this is. The condition is indeed USED but worn with care with very few signs of damage or wear and tear. 

This watch from beginning to end, aside from the dial, is finished in the finest 18-carat yellow gold. The watch carries that yellow gold through to the Oyster style bracelet. The Oyster bracelet is a perfect alchemy of form and function. First introduced in the late 1930s, this particularly robust and comfortable metal bracelet with its broad, flat three-piece links remains the most universal bracelet in the Oyster collection.

This model features a bright green dial with snailed counters, gold applique hour markers, and hands with a Chromalight display, a highly-legible luminescent material. The central sweep seconds hand allows an accurate reading of 1/8 second, while the two counters on the dial display the lapsed time in hours and minutes. Drivers can accurately map out their track times and tactics without fail.

The Daytona’s chronograph feature functions are activated by pushers that screw down like the winding crown when they are not in use, guaranteeing waterproofness to 100 meters. Rolex watchmakers also perfected the mechanism to suit the ideal finger pressure on the pushers and engineered it to provide an instantaneous and accurate start to the timing without sacrificing reliability. The Cosmograph Daytona is equipped with caliber 4130, a self-winding mechanical chronograph movement developed and manufactured by Rolex. Its architecture incorporates far fewer components than a standard chronograph, thereby enhancing the movement’s reliability. The chronograph movement features a Parachrom hairspring, offering greater resistance to shocks and to temperature variations.