Hello,

A friend of mine plan to purchase a Rolex Daytona 16520. He saw a nice one from 1991, serial is X901xxx.

I guess it is from late 91, or 92. Dial has the new 6 and bracelet is 78390. Is it correct ? I mean, shouldn't it have a dial with inverted 6 and 78360 bracelet ?

Bracelet is not that crucial, but I am doubtful about the dial... ?

any idea ?

thanks

 

That dial its a Mark IV, therefore should not be in a X serials...

 

1993-1998 to be more exact.

Cheers

 

Thanks Brunik, this is what I thought. I guess dial was changed later... shame...

 

Plenty of people bought extra dials to have it in black and white... but yes shame that is not a correct one.

Cheers

 

update : It turns out that the watch is correct, it is a U series... However the warranty papers is for another watch....

 

that is even worst...

 

Here's my N series 16520 with an inverted 6 dial and 78360 bracelet.

 

Lovely Mk 3 dial!!

 

Is that acrylic or sapphire?

 

beautiful !!!

dealer finally found the right papers... it is a U series (1997), so the watch is 100% original and deal was done

thank you all for your help

 

Congratulations

 

Wear it in good health. Hopefully a wrist shot is in order?

 

All the 16520 series should have a sapphire crystal from the factory.

 

...and I thought Speedmaster is science..I'm fairly dumb on the Rolex eye, need to change that..

 

.... how do i know....? :

 

not sure if this was said in jest or not (and i have seen people swap acrylics on these on VRF) but, in case it wasnt, no 16520 ever came from the factory with an acrylic crystal. the 16520's sapphire allowed Rolex to increase the depth rating to 100m on the new (at the time) Daytona.

 

totally right. i am sorry! I bought a couple of new watches recently, got a little confused here.

 

it really is amazing how much these have gone up in value since the 116500 was released. i almost bought one for $8/9k right after the released and passed like an idiot. add that to the long list of watches I didnt buy that have gone bonkers.

 

I have the original sapphire crystal of the 16520, the original owner put in an aftermarket acrylic crystal for the looks.