Rolex Daytona 6265 Silver Sigma Dial 1975

Rolex Daytona 6265, Silver 'Sigma' Dial, 1975
Serial: 4026137
Circa: 1975
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 7835/371 undated

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 previously polished. The pushers were replaced during a service in 1996 and is detailed on the Rolex service invoice included with the watch as well as the hands with original tritium hands. The bezel is intact and free of major scratches or damage. The steel bracelet is in excellent condition.

NOTES: The watch comes with a detailed Rolex service invoice from 1996.

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.