Rolex: a rare 1970s Daytona wrist watch ◆
£62,500
Auction: 22 October 2021 at 12:00 BST
Description
Oyster Cosmograph Daytona model 6263 'Big Red,' signed Valjoux 72 reference 727 manual wind movement, stainless steel case, dated 1979 from serial number between lugs and on papers, round silver-coloured dial with applied stainless steel baton hour markers, with lume plots beyond these, subsidiary dials at 3, 6 and 9, for 30 minute register, 12 hour register and small seconds respectively, outer seconds track in black, black acrylic bezel with tachymeter scale, screw-down crown with coronet flanked by twin cylindrical screw-down push-buttons, on a stainless steel Oyster bracelet strap, with a Rolex signed foldover clasp, in box, with outer box, with papers and booklets
Dimensions
Case: 37mm excluding bezel and crown
Provenance
Property of a retired Scottish Merchant Navy Captain, owned from new. The watch was worn and used during the 1984 Trans-Atlantic Tall Ships Race and worn regularly for a period of approximately a year around that time. Following this, the watch spent most time stored unworn, used only occasionally over the last 37 years.
Footnote
Note:
Please note that photographs of the vendor, and his log books and ship-racing paraphernalia, that were previously shown in the additional images are not included for sale along with the watch.