The present timepiece is a highly attractive example of a bejeweled Daytona Cosmograph. Bejeweled pieces have been known since the 80s, when Rolex first experimented with an extremely limited number of manually-wound bejeweled pieces - references 6269 and 6270. With the advent of the 90s, the marque evolved toward innovative and more exotic designs and Rolex once again, extremely limited quantities, produced a number of pieces with gem-set bezel and diamond-pavé dial with gem-set numerals.

The connoisseur will immediately recognize how the present watch is different than what one would expect from a bejeweled 16528: not only the bezel is without gem-setting, but furthermore the subsidiary counters, which are usually golden on pave dials, are in this instance silvered. The reason for this is that the owner of this watch requested and obtained a dial upgrade for his 16528. As it turns out, dials mounted at a later time by Rolex feature silver subdials rather than golden. This combination of a more subdued color of the subdials and a more restrained bezel lets the dial be the one and only protagonist of the watch, and at the same time makes the timepiece more wearable and less flamboyant than the standard gem-set 16528.