$76,800
Ref. 6262 Stainless Steel “Paul Newman” Rolex, “Oyster Cosmograph Daytona” Ref. 6262/6239. Made circa 1969. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, steel bezel and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, Guarantee (now void) and instruction booklet. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. Bicolor silver and black with applied steel square indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds division in red. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 727, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to three positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring,Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes Ref. 6262 Was the second version of Cosmograph featuring pump pushers and replaced reference 6239. Offered at the same time as its sister version with a black plastic bezel (Ref. 6264), it was featured in the catalogues from the midsixties to about 1970.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-12-11
