Collectors of Rolex watches appreciate more than anything the small differences found between one type of dial and another. The Daytona Cosmograph 1652x series was manufactured for about twelve years from 1988, but this first version of their dials is distinctive. Note the so-called “floating Cosmograph,” that word being conspicuously orphaned below the lines of text which it soon rose to join in the next (and all later) versions. Did you also notice that the “6” in the lowest sub-dial is inverted, so that it looks like a “9”?

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