Daytona
If there ever was a watch that has become a living legend, it has to be the Rolex Daytona. It is so revered and coveted that collectors around the world are willing to wait years and pay exorbitant black market prices for the privilege of wearing this universally acclaimed timepiece around their wrists.
The Cosmograph Daytona was created for those who recognize the need for precise timing. With it's chronograph second hand, it's minute and hour totalisers and it's calibrated bezel, which acts as a tachometer, the Daytona is the ideal watch for today's active lifestyle.
The Rolex Daytona
When Rolex created the Daytona they took the classic style of the luxury timepiece maker and mixed it with the high precision needs of professional auto racing, and in doing so elevated the sports watch to a new level. The three extra dials on the face of the luxury sports watch are very useful with the high precision needs of a stopwatch, and the engraving on the bezel can be used as a tachymeter. These features are what make the luxury timepiece perfect for the auto racing world.
The original Daytona’s have four digit serial numbers, and were only manufactured from the nineteen sixties until the nineteen eighties. These watches were in such high demand that Rolex began making Daytona’s again. These later timepieces have six digit serial numbers. In 1996 Rolex released the Daytona in two toned steel and gold, adding to the allure and mystic of the popular high end sports watch.
Although Rolex has never attached the name to the line of watches, the Daytona has come to be nicknamed the Paul Newman Daytona. Where the name originated is debatable but that Paul Newman often wore the luxury watch is not. In nineteen seventy two he began an auto racing career and can be seen wearing the Rolex Daytona in many photos and even in some of his films. Today collectors and dealers refer to the watch as the Paul Newman Daytona and it is one of the most popular sports watches in the world.
The Rolex Daytona is the ideal watch for the active lifestyle, and race car drivers everywhere covet the fabulous combination of form and function. There are other Rolex timepieces and there are other sports watches, but there is only one Daytona, and the unique luxury watch sets the bar high for other timepiece companies to try and match. If it is a fine watch that employs the usability of stopwatch functions and unmistakable style of Rolex that you are after then look no further than the Rolex Daytona.
