Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 837

ROLEX 6264 DAYTONA PAUL NEWMAN Rolex, "Cosmograph, Daytona", case No. 2357353, Ref. 6264/6241. Made circa 1967. Very rare and fine, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, anti-reflective black bezel with tachometer graduated to 200UPH and an 18K yellow gold Rolex buckle.

CHF 120,000 - 180,000

HKD 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 / USD 125,000 - 188,000

Sold: CHF 219,750

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the anti-reflective black bezel to 200 units per hour. Bi-color black and champagne with applied luminous square gold indexes, outer minute/seconds division, subsidiary black dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute register. Luminous yellow gold "bâton" hands. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 1

As new
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 37 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. Approx. overall length 170 mm. Reference 6264 is considered one of the rarest of the "Paul Newman" references; it was used for only a two years, and was a transitional model between the references 6263 and 6241, with round push buttons, and the references 6263 and 6265, with screw- down push buttons, and still had a round push button.