Currently, display cases across the country are bare. The watch really started to gain tremendous value by 2016 after the launch of the ceramic bezel version (116500) and rose to the £9,950 mark by 2018. Even during the recession period of 2008-2009 Rolex did multiple price increases and saw no resistance from buyers All the while, the Daytona was gaining in popularity. Five to six years later, the retail price doubled to around £7,950. At this point new retail sold for £4,400. Since around 2006 a new Daytona would always go for more on the secondary market due to its huge demand and short supply.
As always, bring your knowledge or your trust to the watch shop. If you are a buyer, make sure you can find a well-maintained watch, with original papers and box. It outperforms many of the several hundred luxury watches from well-known brands. This watch is an all-time favorite among aficionados. The Rolex Daytona has demonstrated am impressive gain in value from that time forward. In 1973, you could buy a Daytona for about £375. Rolex designed this timepiece for race car drivers. The idea is to emphasize its affiliation with the prestigious auto race.
In the early ’60s, you could buy a Daytona for around £200 or so. In the first years of production, Rolex made about 500 Daytonas each year until 1961. The Daytona comes in several versions but in this article we focus on the Stainless steel version. The 4130 caliber, stainless case, and sapphire crystal are much the same. The words Cosmograph and Daytona were missing on the dial when it launched in 1955. To begin with, we used official retail prices from of the Rolex 116520 /16500 in the UK from 2006- 2019 and then compared this with average prices of preowned (new) list prices from watchfinder and chrono24
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