Rolex

Green Daytona Beach Ref 116519

Name: Green Daytona Beach Ref 116519
Brand: Rolex
Price: 63211.00 USD
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At The Second Hand Club, we are proud to present one of the rarest and most visually striking Daytona variants Rolex has ever produced: the Cosmograph Daytona "Beach" reference 116519 with green chrysoprase dial, in 18k white gold. Produced for an extraordinarily brief window between 2000 and 2001, the Beach series offered the Daytona in four hardstone and mother-of-pearl dial colours, and the green chrysoprase has emerged as the most coveted of the group. The dial is cut from chrysoprase, a translucent variety of chalcedony whose vivid apple-green colour occurs naturally through trace nickel content, and machining three recessed chronograph sub-dials from a stone this brittle remains one of the more remarkable feats of dial manufacture in Rolex's history. This example is a complete set with the original green lizard strap, matching green lizard box with wallet and notebook, papers dated 2003, and an RSC service card dated 2017. Powered by the Calibre 4130, Rolex's first fully in-house chronograph movement, the 116519 Beach in chrysoprase represents the intersection of Rolex's mechanical maturity and a moment of aesthetic daring that the brand has never repeated. For collectors seeking a pre-owned Rolex Daytona Beach green chrysoprase for sale, a full-set example in this condition is exceptionally difficult to source.

Specifications

Movement	Self Winding
Calibre	In House Calibre 4030
Dial	Green chrysoprase
Case size	40mm
Material	White Gold
Bracelet	Lizard Bracelet
Glass	Sapphire
Condition	Excellent
Box & Papers	Complete, Full set

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About the brand

Rolex's reputation is built on doing the same things, better, for longer than anyone else. The Oyster case, the Perpetual rotor, the Datejust, the Submariner: each represents a fundamental watchmaking idea executed with such consistency that it has become synonymous with the brand itself. The Cosmograph Daytona sits at the centre of this legacy, not because it was the first chronograph wristwatch but because Rolex refined it into the definitive expression of the form. And then, at the turn of the millennium, Rolex did something entirely out of character. It made the Beach series.

The Beach Daytonas matter because they reveal a side of Rolex that the brand rarely shows. The decision to produce white gold chronographs with hardstone dials and coloured lizard straps was not driven by market research or brand extension strategy. It was a creative gamble, a moment when someone inside Rolex decided that the Daytona could be something other than the steel-and-ceramic tool watch that dominates the brand's image today. The green chrysoprase dial is the most vivid expression of that gamble: a naturally occurring stone, each one slightly different from the next, cut and machined to tolerances that left no room for error. It is the kind of manufacturing challenge that Rolex's infrastructure is uniquely equipped to handle, but it is not the kind of challenge the brand typically chooses to take on.

The Calibre 4130, which debuted alongside the Beach series, tells the other half of the story. While the dials were pushing aesthetic boundaries, the movement was establishing Rolex's mechanical independence. The 4130 replaced a modified third-party calibre with a fully in-house chronograph, complete with column wheel and vertical clutch, and it has remained the Daytona's engine for over two decades with minimal revision. The Beach chrysoprase Daytona sits at the exact intersection of these two impulses: Rolex's relentless mechanical ambition and a fleeting moment of aesthetic freedom that the brand has never repeated. For collectors, that combination is what makes it irreplaceable.

About the watch

Rolex does not do whimsy. The brand's entire identity is built on consistency, conservatism, and incremental refinement over decades. Which is precisely what makes the Daytona Beach series so remarkable. For a brief period at the turn of the millennium, Rolex produced a run of white gold Daytonas with dials made from coloured hardstones and mother-of-pearl, paired them with matching lizard straps, and sold them as a package that looked like nothing the brand had made before or has made since. The green chrysoprase version, reference 116519, is the one that has come to define the series.

The 40 mm case is standard Daytona architecture in 18k white gold, with the screw-down pushers at two and four o'clock and the tachymetre bezel engraved with its "Units Per Hour" scale. White gold Daytonas have always occupied a specific position in the collection: visually similar to steel at a glance, but heavier, with a different quality of light on the polished surfaces. The weight of the 116519 on the wrist is substantial, and the contrast between the cool white gold case and the vivid green dial creates an effect that is both luxurious and surprisingly modern. The case proportions are pure Daytona, unchanged from the fundamentals that Paul Newman made famous, but the colour combination transforms the character entirely.

The chrysoprase dial is the centrepiece, and it deserves close examination. Chrysoprase is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, a variety of chalcedony coloured by nickel oxide to produce its characteristic apple-green hue. The name derives from the Greek "chrysos" (gold) and "prason" (leek), and the stone has been prized since antiquity. What makes its use as a watch dial so impressive is the difficulty of working with it. Natural stone is brittle, inconsistent in thickness, and prone to fracturing during machining. Cutting three recessed chronograph sub-dials into a chrysoprase blank without cracking it requires extraordinary precision, and the reject rate for these dials was reportedly very high. Each surviving dial is, in a real sense, a minor miracle of lapidary craft.

The colour of the chrysoprase shifts with light and angle. In direct sunlight it reads as a bright, saturated green, almost emerald-like. In softer indoor light it becomes more muted, taking on a milky, jade-like quality. The white gold Roman numeral hour markers sit raised against the stone surface, their crisp metallic edges contrasting with the organic texture beneath. The three sub-dials, running seconds at six, thirty-minute counter at three, and twelve-hour counter at nine, are recessed into the stone, creating subtle shadows that add depth to a surface that already has remarkable visual complexity. The white gold dauphine hands and chronograph seconds hand are polished to catch light, and against the green ground they have a sharpness that aids legibility despite the unusual dial colour.

Beneath the solid caseback sits the Calibre 4130, which was new at the time the Beach series was produced. Rolex unveiled the 4130 at Baselworld 2000, replacing the modified Zenith El Primero that had powered the Daytona since 1988. The 4130 was a clean-sheet design: a column wheel and vertical clutch chronograph with a 72-hour power reserve, 44 jewels, and a beat rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour. The vertical clutch ensures that the chronograph seconds hand starts without the slight stutter that can occur with lateral clutch systems, and the column wheel provides the precise mechanical logic that serious chronograph collectors expect. The 4130 has since become one of the most respected chronograph movements in production, and the Beach series was among the very first references to use it.

The complete set elevates this example significantly. The green lizard strap is original, matching the dial colour precisely, and the green lizard box with wallet and notebook is the specific presentation package Rolex created for the Beach series. Papers dated 2003 and an RSC service card from 2017 confirm both provenance and maintenance history. Full-set Beach Daytonas are genuinely rare; many examples have lost their original straps (which deteriorate with wear) or their boxes (which were unusual enough that owners did not always recognise their significance). A complete, serviced example with all original accessories is the configuration that collectors pursue most aggressively.

The secondary market for Beach Daytonas has strengthened dramatically over the past decade. What were once considered novelty pieces, too colourful for the conservative Rolex collector, have been reappraised as some of the most distinctive and uncommon Daytonas ever made. Production numbers were tiny by Rolex standards, the hardstone dials cannot be reissued without the original tooling and expertise, and the combination of white gold, coloured stone, and matching strap has no equivalent in the current catalogue. The green chrysoprase, with its depth of colour and natural variation, is the version that commands the strongest demand. It is Rolex at its most uncharacteristically bold, and two decades later, that boldness has aged extraordinarily well.

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