Sell Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Watch

Selling a Cosmograph Daytona 

The condition and model number of the timepiece greatly affected its price in the second hand market. Whenever you would like to sell your Rolex Daytona watch, be sure to bring it to a reliable agent with its original certificate.    

The most expensive Daytona 

Paul Newman Daytona

Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona Reference 6239 broke the world record of luxury watch auction with USD17.75million. The special edition of the Cosmograph Daytona has exotic dials. 

The model is crowned by the famous Hollywood star, director, racer, and entrepreneur Paul Newman. He always wore this Daytona model no matter in daily life, on magazine covers or at the motorsports race track. As a precious gift from Newman’s wife, the watch with an engraved back “Carefully Drive Me” is his must-have during each race. The limited amount of the product makes its price surged and surged, reaching the top of the world.   

Rolex Rainbow Daytona

The Rolex Rainbow Daytona Reference 116595RBOW is one of the most expensive Rolex watches. It is not difficult to understand why it becomes a popular fashion item of Hollywood actors and rock stars when you see its design. 

Originally released in 2012, the Daytona Rainbow is set in either case in yellow gold or white gold. The rising demand and inflating retail price lead to the new model in rose gold, attracting not only gentlemen but also ladies and other luxury watch collectors. The charming and elegant rose gold timepiece was launched in the BaselWorld 2018. 

It is highly decorated by precious jewels – 36 baguette-cut sapphires in a rainbow gradation in the fixed bezel, from red to violet starting from the 12 o’clock position, and 56 shining white diamonds on the case, making it a very distinctive design from other Rolex watches. The 40mm black lacquer dial is also countered in 18 carat pink gold crystals. All of them are set by artisans’ hands in Rolex own factory, demonstrating its authentic craftsmanship. In the black rolex lies 11 rainbow coloured sapphire as the hour markers and the sword-like hands in rose gold colour. The inner rim is marked with monogram of “Rolex” and its crown, reinforcing the identity of the brand. The three iconic sub-dial at the 3 o’clock, 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock positions are all in rose gold. The model DAYTONA is engraved in red on top of the sub-dial at 6 o’clock. 

This timepiece has the calibre 4130 in its heart, has a power reserve of 72 hours and is water resistant to 100 meters. The movement features a column wheel and vertical clutch, a free-sprung balance wheel, Rolex overcoil, paramagnetic blue Parachrom hairspring, the formula for Rolex’s precision. To complete the extraordinary and brilliant design, it comes with a rose gold strap. The splendid crystals in rainbow colour are named to be very difficult to source. The rareness and the extremely limited amount of this Rolex Rainbow Daytona Reference 116595RBOW make it much expensive than the cost of an ordinary Rolex.  

Rolex Unicorn

Rolex Daytona 6265 is the second most expensive Rolex wristwatch in the world until now. It has a nickname Unicorn because of its rareness and specialness. Only a small quantity of 18 carat or 14 carat gold of Cosmograph Daytona watches were made in the past and for Rolex Daytona Unicorn 6265, it is really the only manually wound, vintage Daytona made of 18 carat white gold, lustering like an unicorn.   

The watch has the case, hands and hour markers made of 18 carat white gold, topped with a stainless steel bezel. It is believed that the model was made to order, explaining its uniqueness in the material choice. The 37mm black sigma dial is an icon to the 70’s when the masterpiece was born. 

The ancient Greek letters placed aside the hallmark “SWISS” at the bottom of the dial are the signatures of a sigma dial. On the black dial set with white gold marker and three white sub-dials at the 3 0’clock, 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock positions, creating a contrasting design on the dial that greatly enhanced its appearance. The 3 sub-dials can be used for measuring seconds, minutes and hours of elapsed time by pushing the crown buttons at the side of the case. 

The watch is powered by the manual calibre 727. The luxury timepiece comes with a spectacular bark finished bracelet in white gold, as a perfect match for the only one known of its kind, though it is believed that it is originally fitted with a leather strap which was later replaced by the current one.