{"product_id":"rolex-daytona-yellow-gold-pikachu-116508-2018","title":"Rolex Daytona Yellow Gold 'Pikachu' Ref 116508 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eReference 116508 in 18 ct yellow gold with the champagne dial and black counters — the combination that picked up the Pikachu name and kept it. This is the generation before the ceramic-bezel gold Daytona, and the difference is the first thing you notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bezel here is gold, engraved with the tachymetric scale and polished, not a Cerachrom insert. It means the whole top of the watch is one metal and one finish, so the case reads as a single object rather than a gold frame around a black ring. It also means the scale can wear, which the ceramic cannot — a trade the later reference made in the other direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tachymeter is simpler than it looks. Start the chronograph as something passes a marker, stop it a measured mile or kilometre later, and read the average speed straight off the bezel where the seconds hand lands. No arithmetic, no second scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChampagne with black registers is the reverse of the black-dial gold Daytona, and it is the better of the two in this metal: black sub-dials punched into a warm gold face give the eye somewhere to rest, where an all-dark dial in a gold case tends to close up. The movement is calibre 4130, the automatic chronograph Rolex used across this generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMint, 2018, offered as a full set. A second hand gold Daytona from the last of the 4130 references.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery watch is authenticated by an independent watchmaker before it changes hands, never by us. Viewing by appointment at our Collins Street boutique in Melbourne, insured delivery Australia-wide. We \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sell-your-rolex-australia\"\u003ebuy Rolex outright\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/source-a-watch\"\u003esource specific references\u003c\/a\u003e on request.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48954368655585,"sku":null,"price":82500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/1939\/7345\/files\/rolex-116508-2018-pikachu-01-hero.jpg?v=1787203527","url":"https:\/\/thesmilingsecond.com.au\/products\/rolex-daytona-yellow-gold-pikachu-116508-2018","provider":"The Smiling Second","version":"1.0","type":"link"}