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	The Le Roi Soleil 16518 at Phillips Daytona Ultimatum is the reference's headline auction result. The lot estimate ran CHF 50,000-100,000 and the sale established the Van Cleef & Arpels signature as a documented Rolex collaboration. The white Panda and the diamond-set hour marker variants in Orrico's "Gold Standard" piece have driven the upper end of the standard-production market, both surfacing at Sotheby's New York and Geneva sales through the late 2010s and early 2020s. Beach-dial and stone-dial 16518s surface intermittently and trade at a premium to the standard champagne, but below the headline retailer-signed figures.		The Le Roi Soleil 16518 at Phillips Daytona Ultimatum is the reference's headline auction result. The lot estimate ran CHF 50,000-100,000 and the sale established the Van Cleef & Arpels signature as a documented Rolex collaboration. The white Panda and the diamond-set hour marker variants in Orrico's "Gold Standard" piece have driven the upper end of the standard-production market, both surfacing at Sotheby's New York and Geneva sales through the late 2010s and early 2020s. Beach-dial and stone-dial 16518s surface intermittently and trade at a premium to the standard champagne, but below the headline retailer-signed figures.


			== Related references ==

			* [[Reference:16520\|Daytona 16520]] — "Zenith", First Automatic (1988–2000)
			* [[Reference:16523\|Daytona 16523]] — 1988–2000
			* [[Reference:16528\|Daytona 16528]] — 1988–2000
			* [[Reference:16519\|Daytona 16519]] — White Gold Zenith (1989–2000)
			* [[Reference:116518\|Daytona 116518]] — 2000–2015
			* [[Reference:116520\|Daytona 116520]] — Steel, Cal 4130 (2000–2016)

			See also the [[Reference:daytona\|Daytona family index]], [[Reference:Movements\|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets\|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers\|serial numbers by year]].

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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	The 16518 is the yellow gold leather-strap Zenith Daytona, produced from 1988 to 2000 alongside its yellow gold bracelet sibling 16528. The case is 40mm in 18k yellow gold, the movement Rolex cal 4030 on the modified Zenith El Primero base, and the MK1 through MK7 dial chronology runs in parallel with the steel 16520. Twelve years of production took it through the Singer-to-Rolex dial transitions, the Patrizzi-eligible window, and the tritium-to-Luminova switchover. Layered on top of that shared chronology are the gold-only dial finishes — champagne, white Panda, mother-of-pearl, lapis, sodalite, diamond and pavé — and one retailer-signed unicorn, the Van Cleef & Arpels "Le Roi Soleil" catalogued by Phillips in 2018.		The 16518 is the yellow gold leather-strap Zenith Daytona, produced from 1988 to 2000 alongside its yellow gold bracelet sibling 16528. The case is 40mm in 18k yellow gold, the movement Rolex cal 4030 on the modified Zenith El Primero base, and the MK1 through MK7 dial chronology runs in parallel with the steel 16520. Twelve years of production took it through the Singer-to-Rolex dial transitions, the Patrizzi-eligible window, and the tritium-to-Luminova switchover. Layered on top of that shared chronology are the gold-only dial finishes — champagne, white Panda, mother-of-pearl, lapis, sodalite, diamond and pavé — and one retailer-signed unicorn, the Van Cleef & Arpels "Le Roi Soleil" catalogued by Phillips in 2018.

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