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ROLEX. A RARE STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH BRACELET
Lot 315

ROLEX. A RARE STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH BRACELET

SIGNED ROLEX, COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA, "PAUL NEWMAN", CASE NO. 2526239, REF. 6262, CIRCA 1970

Closed17 October 2007

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ROLEX. A RARE STAINLESS STEEL CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH WITH BRACELET
SIGNED ROLEX, COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA, "PAUL NEWMAN", CASE NO. 2526239, REF. 6262, CIRCA 1970
With nickel-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, black matte dial with applied square numerals on outer white chapter ring with red fifths of a second divisions, luminescent hands, three engine-turned white subsidiary dials indicating constant seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers, tonneau water-resistant-type case with the bezel calibrated for 200 units per hour, screw back and screw-down crown, case, dial and movement signed, with a stainless steel Rolex Jubilee bracelet and deployant clasp
37mm diam.

Specialist note

Accompanied by Rolex green leather-covered box and instructions.

Introduced at the end of the 1960s, the reference 6262 featured the new and more precise caliber 727. Rolex continued its production until circa 1972.

This model is illustrated in I Cronografi Rolex - La Leggenda, Pucci Papaleo Editore, p. 321.