Daytona 126529LN - 24h of LeMans

[rw16610]

Last weekend was the 100th 24 Hours of LeMans race. This event is incredibly significant historically, and has lead to some breakthrough automotive technology for road cars. It's also mind-blowing to think of a machine ensuring that level of abuse for so long, but engineers have been making it happen one way or the other for the past century!


Directly below are the Daytona watches those victorious individuals were gifted:





Further to this, Rolex released a White Gold piece (126529LN) to mark the 100th anniversary of this historic event.












www.fratellowatches.com/redlining-retail-expectations-the-rolex-daytona-24-hours-of-le-mans/

[Baco Noir]

The 100th year Daytona in white gold is gorgeous, but also unobtainable and over $50k.

[rw16610]

Baco Noir Agreed, not to mention the demand for this will be absurd. It's cool that Rolex is now using exhibition case backs for certain models. I wonder if this will expand to some of the 904L Stainless Steel models in the future. Only time will tell, I guess. Also, at some point in the future (if it hasn't happened already) those winners watches might end up at auction. Either that or ones from many years past will, and that would surely be interesting to follow. Just an assumption as some NFL and NBA championship rings were up for sale some years back, anything's possible, I guess.