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Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 16528 · The Index

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Cosmograph Daytona
16528

Cosmograph Daytona 16528

1988–20004 variants

Yellow gold Zenith Daytona on bracelet, launched in 1988. With this generation gold Daytonas got their own reference numbers for the first time.

18k yellow-gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona ref. 16528 (S serial) on leather strap; reference stated in the file title and description. · Photo: Alesili · CC BY-SA 3.0 · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daytona_16528.jpg

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Variants over time

Explore by production yearAll recorded years

19851989

19851990

Faded ends mark approximate or unknown dates. Years are as stated by the cited sources.

Variants

Four Line1988–1989
Four-line dial without “Officially Certified”, with inverted 6. Examples: a late-1988 R-serial case with the first-series 200-unit bezel and an L-serial case (L243758, c. 1989, black dial, chronometer certificate 1990).

Reference specifications

Brand: Rolex
Model: Cosmograph Daytona
Reference: 16528
Category: Chronograph
Production: 1988–2000
Case material: 18k yellow gold
Case diameter: 40 mm
Chronometer: Yes

More specifications (4)

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Reference Points: Understanding The Rolex (Non-Paul Newman) DaytonaRead more at HODINKEE (opens in a new tab)
Giorgia Mondani on the Rolex Daytona reference 16520Read more at Fratello (opens in a new tab)

Screw-down pushers16520 first-series 200-unit bezelInverted 6Four-line dial (16520)

StandardUndated

Yellow gold on gold Oyster bracelet, with baton markers.

Screw-down pushers

Floating Cosmographc. 1988

Gold 16528 with the first-series floating “Cosmograph” dial; porcelain versions are especially sought after.

Screw-down pushersFloating “Cosmograph”

Ying Yangc. 1989

Transitional porcelain dial with four lines in the style of the 6265, a black rather than red “Daytona”, stick indexes with lume dots and no “T Swiss Made T”. Case R833400, c. 1989.

Screw-down pushersPorcelain dial

Date

No

Crystal

Sapphire

Movement

AutomaticAutomaticA mechanical movement wound by a rotor as the watch moves on the wrist.

Calibers

4030

Specs shared by all variants. Variant pages show where a variant differs.

All Cosmograph Daytona references

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