Rolex Daytona 116509 Ultimate Buying Guide

In addition to being Rolex’s most coveted watch, the Rolex 116509 Daytona is also the brand’s most diverse line of sports watches. The replica Rolex Daytona is available in a variety of materials, such as steel, two-tone, platinum and yellow gold. Of course, Rolex doesn’t just make one type of gold, but three different shades – including white gold, which is what we’re highlighting today. While Rolex has been making stainless steel and yellow gold Daytona chronographs since the line was launched in the early 1960s, white gold only became an option in the late 1990s. And, it wasn’t until the mid-2000s that white gold Daytona became available with a bracelet instead of a leather strap. 
The Reference 116509 is Rolex’s current 18k white gold Daytona variant, and there’s a lot to love about this ultra-luxurious chronograph. Not only is it the only Daytona to come with a matching white gold Oyster bracelet, but it also offers a plethora of first-class dial options. Understated due to its white metal construction, but luxurious because that white metal is 18k gold, read on for everything you need to know about the Daytona 116509. Welcome to our ultimate guide to the Rolex Daytona 116509.
The Daytona’s roots are firmly planted in the world of motorsports. In fact, the name “Daytona” was inspired by the famous Daytona Speedway, for which fake Rolex is the official timekeeper. The collection features a tachymeter scale and stopwatch function with Daytona’s signature side-pushers – perfect for timing race laps or calculating speed or distance traveled. Today, the Daytona is a fixture on the wrists of collectors of all professions and lifestyles, and has countless everyday applications.
Before the Daytona as we know it today, there were several models. Early Rolex chronographs featured smooth bezels with tachymeter scales surrounding the dial rather than being engraved on the bezel. It wasn’t until 1963 that the iconic aesthetic of the Daytona began to take shape, when the model number 6239 made its debut and officially moved the tachymeter scale to the bezel. the name “Daytona” did not immediately appear on the dial either. Instead, the dial read “Cosmograph”, a name that remains a fixture on Daytona dials even today.
In order to condense the long and storied history of the Cosmograph Daytona in the most effective way possible, there are three main generations of the Daytona to note. First, there are the hand-wound variants with four-digit reference numbers produced by Rolex from 1963 to 1988. As a group, these are some of the most collectible vintage Rolex replica watches on the market, made famous in particular by Paul Newman (whose own vintage Daytona sold for a record-breaking $17.8 million).