(Photo credit: @RogerFederer/Instagram)
The Rolex Daytona 100th Anniversary of Le Mans in yellow gold made its public debut on the wrist of brand ambassador extraordinaire Roger Federer Tuesday, when the retired tennis legend attended the quarter finals of the US Open in New York.
This watch, first released in 2023 in white gold then re-launched in yellow gold 10 months later, is extremely rare, not only for its availability but design. Unlike the white-gold Le Mans, the yellow-gold version is off-catalog and not advertised by the Crown.
Rolex tends to eschew anniversaries and even more vintage aesthetics. In the Daytona Le Mans, however, the sub-registers have the square pointers made famous by the exotic dial of the “Paul Newman” Daytona.
Federer rocked the GMT-Master II Batman at Roland Garros and the Wimbledon-dial Datejust at, well, Wimbledon. The yellow-gold Le Mans ref. 126528LN has been a ghost, except briefly on the wrist of Rolex CEO Jean-Frédéric Dufour during a RTS news segment at this year’s Watches and Wonders.