Timeless Beauty: Spectacular Wristwat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 24, 2004

LOT 243

So-called "Ferrari Red" Rolex Oyster Cosmograph, Ref. 6263/6262, case No. 3048303. Produced in the 1970s. Extremely rare and very fine water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman,s wristwatch with red and black dial, round button chronograph, registers and tachometer and with black anti-reflective bezel graduated to 200 units per hour. Accompanied by a stainless steel Oyster bracelet and a recent Rolex service guarantee.

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C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, Triplock crown and chronograph pushers, tachometer graduation on the bezel. D. Two-tone red and black with applied steel indexes and tritium dots, subsidiary "guilloché" sunk seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers dials. Tritium-coated steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm. Approx. overall length 195 mm.


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Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2 - 01

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Almost certainly a prototype, this astonishing example illustrates the evolution of research and design of the "Daytona" model. In 1979, Rolex made a few experimental dials for References 6263 and 6265 in three different colors, one of which was red. Three other ?Ferrari Red? watches, also accompanied by Rolex service guarantees, were sold by Antiquorum on October 11, 2003, lot 571; and on April 14, 2003, lots 308 and 309.