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Originally Posted by stuartj
Right- so racing to Wiki which isnt terribly helpful- there was an original series of "Daytona" chronographs between the 60's and the late 80s- and these had the Valjoux cal 72- as had previous Rolex chronographs. But the modern Daytona series ( from the middle 90s)- these were originally released with the Zenith, never had the Valjoux. Is that right?
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Wiki? Really?
OK, here's how it goes... In 1960, Rolex began making a watch that bore a resemblance to the modern ones. In 1961, they resurrected the Cosmograph name for these watches and subsequently, the Daytona name began being used on some of them. In 1977, they added screw-down pushers, which gave the watch it's current look, more or less. The Zenith movement was designed in the 1980's, was introduced around 1988 and you could actually buy one by 1991. A couple years after that, Rolex began work on the their own movement and that series of watches was introduced in 2000. Some minor tweaks occurred in 2005.
Each series of watches had minor evolutionary changes along the way but, in any given era, the movements were the same. When they introduced the watches that housed the Zenith movements, they discontinued the use of the Valjoux movements. Their cousins in the Tudor line, however....
JR