Last year, a vintage Rolex Daytona worn by Paul Newman was sold at auction for $17.8 million. Cara Barrett, editor at Hodinkee, fills us in on why Rolex's are so pricey. Following is a transcript ...

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A unique Rolex Cosmograph Daytona will be one of the highlights of Sotheby’s Important Watches auction in Geneva on May 11. The 1999 Cosmograph Daytona, Ref.16516, in platinum with a diamond-set ...

All four have the same reference number 16516, with the ending “6” referring to the platinum cases—made 15 years before Rolex ever made a platinum Daytona commercially available. The ...

If you’re a super-collector these days—a true member of the Swiss-made cognoscenti—then you better have Rolex’s limited- and extremely special-edition “Le Mans” Daytona on your wrist.

Rolex watches ... with a straight face – as mythical. What to Read Next This May, at Sotheby’s Important Watches Sale in Geneva, a one-off Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, custom-made for a client ...

When it comes to collectible Rolex watches, there are multiple tiers. At the baseline, no watch in the catalog is more collectible than the Daytona. Add in a few diamonds—maybe arranged in a ...

Bank-breaking. Just occasionally a model appears that could even be described – with a straight face – as mythical. This May, at Sotheby’s Important Watches Sale in Geneva, a one-off, extremely rare ...