My 'new' Rolex Daytona - zenith movement...

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...from the late 90's with the rare 'P' serial number. I'm loving it!!

[Gold Rolex]

I've got one of those

[Gold Rolex]

mine, alongside my sea-dweller, Mcwaffles!!!!

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Gold Rolex said:

mine, alongside my sea-dweller, Mcwaffles!!!!

Very nice!! Is your Daytona a Zenith, 'P' serial too?? 1999 production.

[Gold Rolex]

no mate, mine is a 96 on a T number. Yours looks in much better condition than mine you've got a fantastic watch there!

[cyberface]

My old Daytona that I sold last year had the seconds counter at 6 o-clock.

So the EP movement models had seconds at 9 o-clock then??

Dang goes my fake-spotting technique... seen some *very* accurate replicas but these have the seconds counter at 9 o-clock, perhaps these were real late 90s EP Daytonas.

FWIW I bought my Daytona 'new-used' as is always the way (friends of the dealer no doubt) from David Duggan in 2002, and it had a P serial number...

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cyberface said:

My old Daytona that I sold last year had the seconds counter at 6 o-clock.

So the EP movement models had seconds at 9 o-clock then??

Dang goes my fake-spotting technique... seen some *very* accurate replicas but these have the seconds counter at 9 o-clock, perhaps these were real late 90s EP Daytonas.

FWIW I bought my Daytona 'new-used' as is always the way (friends of the dealer no doubt) from David Duggan in 2002, and it had a P serial number...

All the modern Daytonas from 1988 up to 1999 (model ref 16520) had the Zenith movement and had the seconds dial at the 9pm position. From 1999, the Rolex in-house movement was used and the dials moved around.

The 'P' serial 16520 was made for a few months (and only a few hundred in number) before the movement change occurred in 1999 and the 'P' serial 116520 was released.