Rolex Daytona*** 6265 Silver Sigma Dial*** 1974
ROLEX Daytona Ref. 6265, Silver 'Sigma' Dial, 1975
Serial: 3528782
Circa: 1974
Reference: 6265
CASE: 37mm, stainless steel with screw-down (Oyster) pushers and metal tachymeter bezel bezel & acrylic crystal.
DIAL: Silver dial with applied baton hour markers and black registers. Rolex Oyster Cosmograph printed on the dial & Sigma T SWISS T Sigma at the bottom.
MOVEMENT: Caliber 727, Hand-wound mechanical column wheel chronograph movement with 17 jewels
BRACELET: Rolex Oyster folded 7835/271 dated 70
CONDITION REPORT: The dial is mint and free of stains or scratches with all lume plots full and nicely aged to a warm amber color. The case is strong & thick and pinholes are intact, appears unpolished. The crystal was replaced and original one kept on the side. The bezel is intact and free of major scratches or damage. The steel bracelet is in excellent condition and two links have been installed since taking the photos (full links now).
The movement was fully overhauled in January 2022.
NOTES: Interestingly, although this is not an issued watch, it does have a tiny dot on the edge of the screw back next to the teeth and also the last three digits of the serial number are found inside the caseback. This was likely a watch intended to be issued and simply sold within the regular retail network. An interesting little feature of the watch as serials or partial serials are seldom found on Rolex inner casebacks.
In 1963, Rolex released the Cosmograph watch to measure and record elapsed time beginning with the reference 6239. This reference did not yet carry the name Daytona. It was powered by a Valjoux 72B manual wind column wheel chronograph movement, which Rolex reworked and improved internally. The watch had a tachymeter bezel and was fitted with pump pushers. Soon after, the introduction of the name Daytona was often seen on Rolex chronographs. This name came from the beach town in Florida, USA, where the famous Daytona race took place every year.
The reference 6265 & 6263 were fitted with 'Sigma' dials during a short period and there are different variants of the Sigma dials with either the sigma inside the hashes or outside the hashes, but all from the early 1970's up to about 1974/1975. These variants do not have Daytona mentioned on the dial.
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