On the first day of Watches & Wonders this year, the Hodinkee team was sitting in a hotel conference room prepping to cover the Patek, Rolex, and Tudor releases when someone checked the Rolex website and – wisely – went right to the Daytona page. It was then we noticed the white gold perfect super clone Rolex “Le Mans” Daytona ref. 126529LN watches was gone. Ben picked up his phone and texted one of those phone numbers that’s ended up in his Rolodex over the years and found out that, yes, “your version of the Daytona has been discontinued.” We were told there was something else cool that would be worth seeing. By now, we know what that “something” is: the “Le Mans” Daytona ref. 126528LN in Yellow Gold. It just so happened it took only about nine months to get both in the same place for some photos.

The AAA UK replica Rolex “Le Mans” Daytona ref. 126529LN watches in white gold was the hottest thing from Rolex for less than a year – one of the shortest-lived runs of any modern Rolex. The next hottest thing was basically the same thing as the old hottest thing but different. A “Le Mans” Daytona with all the same touches – bold silver subdials with “lollipop” markers, red “100” on the ceramic bezel, display caseback – but now in bold yellow gold. But unlike the white gold version, this one wasn’t listed on the website, making it an off-catalog release, and one Rolex didn’t feel like making available for hands-on time (no matter how much I politely tried over the last nine months).

Honestly, not much more can be said that Ben hasn’t already written in his “Week on the Wrist” from the driver’s seat – er… owner’s perspective of the white gold version. It measures 40mm wide by 12mm thick, with the 4131 movement introduced with the 2023 Daytonas. But there’s something special about this high quality Rolex super clone watches in yellow gold. The things that I love about the white gold “Le Mans” – the subtleness and the fact it can be mistaken for steel – go out the window here with a bolder, louder, more intense version.

I’m not sure if it’s anecdotal, but it feels like I’m seeing more of the new 126528LN yellow gold Le Mans delivered than I ever saw of the predecessor. I saw my first example wrapped in shrink wrap next to a white gold “Le Mans” in September at a shop in Tokyo called Jack Road. The asking price was JPY 55,000,000 or about $360,000 (the white gold was JPY 32,800,000 or $210,000). That’s the same price they were asking for the white gold “Rainbow” Daytona – another off-catalog grail for many people. I saw my next one at our UBS House of Craft event, then another in Singapore in October at IAMWATCH, and finally, this Swiss made Rolex fake watches was delivered to a friend recently (another friend-of-a-friend got one recently as well).

Regardless of how many you’ve seen on social media (or available for sale on the secondary market for about $300,000 right now), these are still really rare birds. One international retailer with a large number of points of sale told me that they’ve gotten less than a half dozen for clients. No one will probably ever know exactly how many were made – that’s just not Rolex’s style – but it’s certainly not a lot. The only rarer modern Rolex I’ve ever seen was the Ruby Daytona.

There are a few little decisions Rolex made with this top UK super clone Rolex watches that popped out at me over my 48 hours of getting to wear this and pretend I’m the kind of VIP that would get the call for one of the hottest watches on Earth. The first – and I know plenty of people will disagree – is the silver subdials. The obvious choice would have been to make the subdials gold to match the case (like a ref. 6241 “John Player Special”, probably in my top 3 favorite watches of all time). I think it would have been too much. Why? I don’t know, but even if they couldn’t put their finger on it, everyone at the Hodinkee office agreed that the silver subdials play.

One of the very few differences between the original best China copy Rolex “Le Mans” Daytona 126529LN watches in white gold and its yellow gold successor (aside from the case material and matching accents, of course) is something so subtle that I can’t claim credit for noticing it. Instead, our talented designer Matt Thompson pointed out that the red “100” on the bezel – the 100 that was originally colored for the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans – seemed just a little different. Turns out, he’s not wrong.

There’s always some potential for variance in the color stability of the strobes I use to photograph. Still, using the same color balance, lighting setup, and all other variables being the same, it looks like the color of red on the white gold “Le Mans” in the photo above has slightly less in all the red, green, and blue channels combined. In contrast, the yellow gold has punched all of those channels up. The hex codes are #e43d45 and #f9494b for the color nerds. That results in a DeltaE value (ΔE is a metric used to measure and compare colors) of 5.28, where pure white and pure black have a ΔE of 100. So they’re about 5% different.

Why? If I had to guess, it’s probably the same color paint. However, the ceramic bezel in each instance is a gold bezel of the appropriate color with ceramic over the top. The ceramic color red would then be inlaid into the “100,” and it’s likely thin enough to be influenced by the material underneath. That’s my bet, at least. Some people in the office thought there was a chance that the red on the dial of the yellow-gold model was a bit darker, too, but I couldn’t verify that.

There are plenty of other things to enjoy about the UK cheap Rolex super clone watches, and after a long time trying to get a chance to photograph it seriously, I’m just going to share those photos with you. Not much more text, no long-winded musing about the merits of a $50,400 watch. Just stuff that makes for good phone backgrounds (trust me, I’d know).

Final thoughts? I know some of you have been lucky enough to see one – or both – of these Rolex replica watches for men in person. Heck, someone on Instagram told me they tried both recently in Japan. If you only get a shot at one of them and don’t get to pick, you’re going to end up with a killer watch either way. Personally, if given the choice, I’d lean toward the white gold. I’m not the yellow-gold-sports-watch-wearing guy at this point in my life. What I’d love to see is the Swiss movements super clone Rolex watches – but in steel. I don’t need the red bezel or lollipop markers. Just a return to the 6240-style case, bezel, pushers, and – most importantly – subdials. I’ll take two to go, please.