https://reverb.com/ca/item/30447376-studer-169-fully-restored-recapped-and-serviced
mnem
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That is a similar, but not exactly same desk. Meters on that one are PPM, alternatively aftermarket. Mine are original VU. Other than that, the feature set and channel composition are the same. One could order them with stereo line input modules for radio work et c; also with RIAA preamps, but those are quite rare, because most people using this console in a DJ setup were connecting Technics SL1000 or EMT turntables that come with integrated RIAA preamp in the plinth. I've got one of those (SL1000) too. Think of the SL1000 as a Very Expensive Grown-Up Older Brother of the SL1200.
Edit: I only looked at the link you gave, mnem, after I'd written most of above. Yes, I know it is a highly sought-after desk, but I'm going to work it, not sell it. Like my TE, I've got it to be used, not to be in a museum, and not (primarily) as an investment.
Besides, people tend to rip out the input modules and stuff them in pairs to a 2HE rack box, with a PSU, and flog them on the Bay, claiming that this will make your recordings sell platinum. Simply because it is Vintage. Yeah, right. Them preamps are good, but they're just 2 BC550 and a BC560, after a pretty OK transformer. With Tants. The transformer can be subbed by a Lundahl or Jensen (still made, and in lots of varieties) and the rest is a $30 BOM on Mouser, not counting hardware. Ok, if you want the EQ, there's some inductor magic, but, still.
Currently, I've gone full teenage sound person again, and have collected a fat shopping cart at Thomann with bits and bobs to help me do even better gigs with the desk. This is what I wanted to do in life, and I tried quite hard to make it happen, until say 1998, when I discovered that not only were there open positions for network engineers, they paid well, and every month at that.