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Cosmograph Daytona

The Cosmograph Daytona is the chronograph line: two pushers beside the crown, three smaller dials set into the main dial, and a tachymeter scale printed around the bezel. In this collection the series is represented by one steel 40 mm configuration with a white dial.

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Reference photograph of a steel chronograph with a white dial and black bezel
  • Display Three subdials at three, six and nine o’clock, plus a long central chronograph hand. No date window.
  • Bezel Fixed bezel with a tachymeter scale, marked “Units per hour”, for reading an average rate from elapsed time.
  • Controls Crown between two pushers on the right-hand side, so the silhouette is wider than a time-only case.
  • Bracelet shown Three-link bracelet with broad centre links and a silver-tone finish.

In this collection

One Daytona configuration

The Rolex brand page

This collection lists a small number of configurations. Series not shown here can still be discussed — send the model and reference and availability is checked for you.

Design notes

What defines the Daytona

A dial organised around three extra scales

Most of what makes a Daytona recognisable happens inside the dial. The three subdials do not carry the same scale: in the pictured configuration the upper-right dial counts thirty units, the upper-left counts twelve and the lower dial counts sixty. They are read as elapsed minutes, elapsed hours and running seconds, while the long central hand belongs to the chronograph rather than to everyday timekeeping. The outer minute track then sits between the hour markers and the bezel print, which is a lot of information arranged in concentric bands. Viewing the dial from straight on and slightly above shows how those bands are separated.

Where the Daytona sits in this collection

Compared with the Submariner, the Daytona shows more on the dial and adds two controls to the side of the case. Compared with the Datejust, it keeps a monochrome case-and-bracelet combination and does without a calendar. That makes it the busiest of the three designs here, and the one where the bezel text and the dial markings are meant to be used rather than merely looked at. Model reference, case size and the details of the pictured configuration are listed on the watch page; availability, price and shipping to your country are confirmed in the WhatsApp conversation.

These notes describe the design as it appears in the photographs on this site. Movement, water resistance, weight and material composition are not stated here, because those belong to the specific unit being offered and are confirmed in the conversation before anything is paid.

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Other series and guides

Other Rolex series here

  • Submariner No-Date — Dive watch, 41 mm, black dial, no date window, unidirectional ceramic-style bezel.
  • Datejust 41 two-tone — Dress watch, 41 mm, gold-toned fluted bezel, white Roman numeral dial, Jubilee-style bracelet.
  • All Rolex series — the brand page lists every series in this collection.

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