Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Diamond ’Ruby Baguette’ Edition 18kt White Gold Baguette Diamond & Ruby Baguette Special Edition with Monobloc Middle Case and Screw-Down Case Back with Winding Crown, Bezel Set with 36 Large Baguette Diamonds and Rubies, 18K White Gold Case set with 48 Round  Brilliant Diamonds, Pave Diamond Dial with Black Enamel Roman Numerals, Burgundy Crocodile Leather Strap with 18kt White Gold Fold-Over Deployant Buckle, 40mm – Rare Collector’s Off-Catalog Edition

The 40mm diameter solid three-body case, curved lugs, and flat channeled bezel set with 36 Baguette Diamonds & Rubies, are polished. The hooded lug end pieces are set with triple and double rows of brilliant-cut diamonds (48 in all), and the unique Pave diamond dial has extremely rare Black Enamel Roman Numerals. It has baton hands, a center sweep chronograph seconds hand. There are three guilloche subsidiary dials with black markers, indicators, and black Arabic numerals, including a 12-hour chronograph totalizer at 9 o’clock, a 30-minute totalizer at 3 o’clock, and there is a running small seconds dial at 6 o’clock. It has a Certified Official Superlative Chronometer (COSC) rating, a 72-hour power reserve at full wind, and it’s water-resistant to 100 meters/330 feet. 

This Rolex Cosmograph Daytona ’Ruby Baguette’ 116599RU has a mechanical automatic self-winding Rolex Caliber 4130 column-wheel chronograph movement. It’s rhodium-plated with fausses cotes embellishment, and it’s constructed with 44 jewels, a shock absorber mechanism, and a straight-line lever escapement. It has a monometallic balance that’s adjusted to heat, cold, and 6 positions. It includes a self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, a hacking seconds mechanism for precision time-setting, and Microstella regulating screws. It has the Rolex blue Parachrom hairspring and overcoil. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4Hz).

Excellence, opulence, decadence: Virtually impossible to acquire at your local Rolex dealer, even for longstanding customers of Rolex, the present Cosmograph Daytona ’Ruby Baguette’ Edition is in collectors unworn condition. The reference 116599RU is a captivating reminder of the joie de vivre that wearing a watch can inspire, as well as the creative, technical, and aesthetic excellence of the Rolex brand. Each diamond– every single gemstone used is internally flawless - is perfectly cut to fit without prongs into the bezel, and selected with the right color for transitioning to the stones on adjacent sides, so that rather than seeming like 36 individual stones, they blend into one another. Due to the difficulty in sourcing these stones, subjecting them to Rolex’s high standards, and then fitting them into the watch, production numbers remain extremely low and across all metals, very few are available on the open market and none are in this collectors condition. 

As one of the most coveted  designs in this legendary watchmaker’s line, the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona ’Ruby Baguette’ in 18kt White Gold has a keen reputation to live up to. It does not fail to deliver. This stunning timepiece marries Rolex precision and quality with an incredibly exotic appearance. 

Reference No. 116599RU