116508

So figured the PN is a good watch to wear for all of it.

Been thinking about how differently collectors talk about the steel Daytona depending on which generation they came up in. The 116520 introduced the Calibre 4130 in 2000 - column-wheel, vertical clutch, entirely in-house. That was the real turning point.

As beautiful as it is overexposed. Years ago a dealer told me that in seven years of production he had received almost exclusively examples in the green dial configuration, and that says a lot. Just take a look at the well-known platform Chrono24: roughly

… well before John Mayer video started the high popularity of this model and provoked a steep raise of its price. (As a matter of fact I bought mine at retail price!) Agree with your thoughts and that it is interesting to observe how a well known person p

John Mayer has a history of being so thirsty to have a watch named after him all-a Paul Newman whose Daytonas are affectionately named after. That being said one cannot deny the John Mayer had a major influence on the second hand prices of the watch. All

I own the 116508 and love how the deep, emerald green looks with red rings around the sub dials. Sometimes it looks black and when light hits, it lit up. Green is the color of the brand and Daytona models are iconic, so I love it not for the nick name but

The yellow gold Daytona with the green dial. Most people call it the John Mayer Daytona. John Mayer wore his 116508 quite a bit and talked about it in interviews and on social media. The combination of yellow gold and that green sunburst dial was pretty b