Real LeMans Daytona?

[Neil McCauley]

Originally Posted by Bazil

The OG Daytona started life being called a Le Mans, that’s its initial inception purpose, so when I see Le Mans that’s what I think of, not a way over hyped £250,000 - £400,000 WG DAYTONA that has solid sub-dials as a slight ode to historical Daytonas .. I can take my watch to the engravers and have anything put on it, to me a 116500 is a really nice watch, but that’s it, to me it is nothing special, hard to have got from an AD easy to get grey market ..

Again, missing the point, my dude

Tom's 116500 ain't no normal 116500, even if it is "just" an engraving. It's what it represents:
- Won as a result of winning the Le Mans/Daytona 24hr, hardly a walk in the park
- Presented by Rolex CEO himself
- Owned by none-other than 9-time Le Mans 24hr Champion Tom Kristensen, the most successful Le Mans racer of all time... and yes, he has 9 of em....

Yes the watch is "just" a 116500LN.... but it's not "just" a 116500LN, in the same way that Paul Newman's Daytona isn't "just" a 6239.

Yes someone could get theirs engraved with "Rolex 24hrs Daytona" on it... but it would just be a 116500LN that a chump got engraved to pretend it's something it's not. Provenance is key.