Rolex Daytona*** 6263 Silver Big Red*** 1978

Rolex Daytona*** 6263 18K YG Black Dial*** 1979

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ROLEX Daytona Ref. 6263, 18K Yellow Gold, Black Dial, 1979
Serial: 6122616 / Chronometer Mvt # 10650
Circa: 1979
Reference: 6263

MOVEMENT: Caliber 727, Hand-wound mechanical column wheel chronograph movement with 17 jewels

DIAL: Black dial with gold color registers, applied hour markers and tritium dots. Gilt printing Rolex Oyster SCOC and T SWISS T at the bottom. Gold baton hands.

CASE: 37mm, 18K Yellow Gold with black tachymeter bezel bezel and acrylic glass

BRACELET: Rolex black leather strap with Rolex yellow gold plated buckle

CONDITION REPORT: Overall excellent and all original

NOTES:
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. In the late 60’s the 6240 was introduced with the addition of screw-down waterproof pushers and therefore carried the word Oyster on the dial. In 1971, two models were available: the 6265 with metallic bezel and the 6263 with the bakelite bezel. These two models had the 727 caliber and continued production all the way until 1987.

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