Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 116518LN
Range published · high confidence
Worth about $41,400 pre-owned, with box and papers
- With box and papers
- $31,000–$51,700
- Watch only (about)
- $26,800–$44,700
Private-sale level for a pre-owned watch with box and papers, from recent eBay and auction results, weighted toward the newest; newest sale October 18, 2026.
Moving: Recent sale prices vary a fair amount from sale to sale. Over the last 90 days (6 sales), prices typically sat within about 11% of the middle. Below 10% we call a market stable, above 20% volatile.
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High confidence: 26 sold results in the last 24 months (20 on eBay and 6 at auction), 6 in the last 90 days, weighted toward recent sales (half-life 180 days). Range at least ±25% around the market price. In our walk-forward backtest over the past year, 91% of 25632 later sales fell inside high-confidence ranges like this one.
Prices last updated October 26, 2026.
Recent sales
57 sold results since Nov 7, 2023, newest first
- eBay sold
- $39,600 median10 sales, last 12 months
- Auction sold
- $45,700 median6 sales, last 12 months
Individual sale results behind our data, from eBay and auction houses. Each watch differs in condition and set.
- Oct 18, 2026$42,500
- Sep 18, 2026$39,600
- Sep 2, 2026$39,000
- Aug 21, 2026$45,675
- Aug 6, 2026$48,434
- Aug 5, 2026$41,000
- Jul 29, 2026$20,000
- Jun 29, 2026$45,125
- Apr 25, 2026$39,100
- Apr 15, 2026$39,600
- Mar 9, 2026$50,500
- Mar 2, 2026$46,200
- Feb 28, 2026$48,300
- Feb 26, 2026$41,400
- Feb 24, 2026$48,499
- Feb 6, 2026$45,675
- Jan 27, 2026$46,935
- Jan 15, 2026$41,200
- Dec 18, 2025$38,505
- Dec 10, 2025$44,450
- Oct 31, 2025$39,990
- Oct 18, 2025$42,325
- Aug 29, 2025$41,500
- Aug 17, 2025$46,825
- Aug 13, 2025$31,194
- Aug 6, 2025$30,594
- Jul 1, 2025$40,500
- May 10, 2025$32,253
- May 6, 2025$37,500
- Apr 10, 2025$24,832
- Apr 10, 2025$38,500
- Mar 30, 2025$32,253
- Mar 25, 2025$36,558
- Mar 14, 2025$36,900
- Feb 12, 2025$41,694
- Jan 19, 2025$39,825
- Jan 9, 2025$40,100
- Oct 19, 2024$28,798
- Sep 15, 2024$39,000
- Sep 3, 2024$31,659
- Jul 12, 2024$38,750
- Jul 6, 2024$39,382
- Jun 26, 2024$35,900
- Jun 24, 2024$33,535
- May 27, 2024$25,000
- May 24, 2024$36,322
- May 20, 2024$38,900
- Apr 18, 2024$37,999
- Apr 8, 2024$36,992
- Apr 1, 2024$40,000
- Mar 3, 2024$38,000
- Feb 8, 2024$39,094
- Jan 23, 2024$36,500
- Jan 4, 2024$37,689
- Dec 24, 2023$25,100
- Nov 17, 2023$38,500
- Nov 7, 2023$31,500
Forum rows are posts on Reddit r/Watchexchange, RolexForums and WatchUSeek that the seller marked sold. The amount is the listed price when marked sold, not a confirmed sale price, and forum rows do not feed our price.
Price by condition
| Condition | Box and papers | Range | Typical | Prices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Any | $39,900–$54,000 | $46,900 | 3 |
Price history
Show price history as a table
| Month | Median | Observations |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2025 | $34,400 | 2 |
| Aug 2025 | $31,200 | 3 |
| Dec 2025 | $41,500 | 2 |
| Jan 2026 | $44,100 | 2 |
| Feb 2026 | $47,000 | 2 |
| Apr 2026 | $39,400 | 2 |
| Aug 2026 | $47,100 | 2 |
| Sep 2026 | $39,300 | 2 |
Cosmograph Daytona 116518LN price history over the years
Our price records for the Cosmograph Daytona 116518LN go back to 2018. In 2018, forum listings marked sold had a median listed price of $25,000 (5 posts). In the 12 months to October 26, 2026, the same median was $45,100 (5 posts), up 80% on 2018. The highest quarterly median was $48,500 in Q1 2026 (3 posts), and the lowest was $25,000 in Q3 2018 (3 posts). Forum figures are the price a seller listed on Reddit r/Watchexchange, RolexForums or WatchUSeek when the post was marked sold, not a confirmed sale price.
- Forum (listed price when marked sold), quarterly, 71 posts
- eBay sold (from 2024), quarterly, 35 sales
Show long-range history as a table
| Quarter | Median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2018 | $25,000 | 3 |
| Q3 2020 | $31,500 | 3 |
| Q4 2020 | $34,000 | 6 |
| Q1 2021 | $36,500 | 3 |
| Q3 2021 | $44,400 | 4 |
| Q2 2022 | $45,600 | 3 |
| Q3 2022 | $48,000 | 3 |
| Q4 2022 | $40,400 | 3 |
| Q1 2023 | $38,400 | 4 |
| Q3 2023 | $42,000 | 7 |
| Q4 2023 | $39,400 | 3 |
| Q2 2024 | $38,000 | 3 |
| Q1 2026 | $48,500 | 3 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2024 | $38,000 | 3 |
| Q2 2024 | $36,300 | 5 |
| Q3 2024 | $38,900 | 4 |
| Q1 2025 | $38,300 | 4 |
| Q3 2025 | $35,800 | 4 |
| Q3 2026 | $39,300 | 4 |
About the Cosmograph Daytona 116518LN
The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 116518LN is a reference in the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona collection. From our catalog: a 40 mm case in 18k yellow gold; bezel: Black Cerachrom (ceramic) bezel with tachymeter scale; movement: Rolex calibre 4130 (automatic chronograph). The specifications below list every fact we have sourced for this reference; anything we could not source is marked as not known.
What the sales say
We count 26 transactions toward its estimate, 20 eBay sales and 6 auction results; the earliest entry shown is from November 2023, the latest from October 2026. Sales bunched in February 2026, which alone accounts for 4 of them. On the auction side, the results are from Antiquorum, Grailzee and Sotheby's. Few references earn our top rating; this one does, thanks to a dense and consistent stream of results. The newest sale is under two weeks old. Its recent sales are labelled Moving: they differ by about 11% from one another, enough to matter when you compare offers. A fair price for the 116518LN can sit anywhere from about 25% below to 25% above the midpoint. Because it changes hands rarely, a sale still counts for half after 180 days.
Twelve months on, the typical sale has gained about 21.6% against the year before. Its long record (forum listings marked sold (listed prices, not confirmed sales)) runs from 2018: today's twelve-month median is up 80% on that start, after a low in 2018 and a high in 2026. Auction buyers have paid more than eBay buyers for the 116518LN recently: a gap of about 13% between the medians, from 10 eBay sales against 6 auction results.
Without box and papers, the same 116518LN is worth about 14% less on the ratio we measured for its collection (from 5 watch-only sales). Of the 57 sales listed, 23 came as a full set, 0 as the watch alone and 5 with part of the set; 2 were described as unworn. Unworn full sets sell about 5% above worn ones across our data, so an unworn example sits above the headline. At the bottom of the list is a sale from July 29, 2026, on eBay, set not stated, about 52% below the worth-about figure; at the top, August 6, 2026, on eBay, full set, about 17% above the worth-about figure.
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