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Provenance:
Christie’s, Geneva, May 12th 2014, lot 139.
Literature:
Examples with different case materials and dial layout are illustrated and described in I cronografi Rolex – La Leggenda, Pucci Papaleo Editore, pp. 254-276.
Reference 6234 in production from 1956 until 1960 can be considered as the grandfather of the famous Rolex Daytona as it preceded the reference 6238 which really is the last model before the introduction of the reference 6239 Rolex Daytona in 1963.
Rolex
Model “Pre Daytona”
Ref. 6234, Serial No. 688534
Circa 1960
A stainless-steel antimagnetic
chronograph wristwatch with telemeter
and tachymeter scale
Case: round with screw down crown and
case back, two round chronograph pushers
in the band, reference and serial
numbers, signed
Dial: silvered with applied dagger
indexes, luminous dots, 3 subsidiary
dials for constant seconds, 30 minutes
and 12 hours registers, outer minute
track with 1/5th second graduation,
telemeter and tachometer scale, signed
Movement: mechanical with manual
winding, calibre 72 A, 17 jewels,
balance spring and lever escapement,
signed
Clasp/Buckle: stainless steel buckle,
signed
Dimensions: 36 mm
CHF 15'000 – 25'000
Vendu pourCHF 19'805
Provenance:
Christie’s, Geneva, May 12th 2014, lot 139.
Literature:
Examples with different case materials and dial layout are illustrated and described in I cronografi Rolex – La Leggenda, Pucci Papaleo Editore, pp. 254-276.
Reference 6234 in production from 1956 until 1960 can be considered as the grandfather of the famous Rolex Daytona as it preceded the reference 6238 which really is the last model before the introduction of the reference 6239 Rolex Daytona in 1963.