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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 181

Rolex, Oyster, Cosmograph, so-called Paul Newman, Ref. 6265, with gold bezel, 1970?s.Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

CHF 40,000 - 45,000

Sold: CHF 43,700

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 200 units per hour. D. bicolor black and matte gold with applied tritium-coated gold indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers. ?Bâton? tritium-coated gold hands. M. 13???, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to3 positions, antishock system, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: * 3
Dial: 4 - 5 - 01

Notes

Ref. 6265Produced from 1961 to 1988, the first model with screwed buttons around 1970 as follows: 18K yellow gold, 14K yellow gold or stainless steel with gold, steel or black enamelled bezel.Some of them were fitted with an exotic dial so-calledPaul Newman, bearing the mention Oyster.Similar watches are published in Collezionare Orologi da Polso Rolex, 1998 Edition, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, pp. 353-354, 357-358 and 384.