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Lot Essay
With Rolex Garantie with misspelled reference number 6252 instead of 6262 stamped by retailer Deacon & Son and dated 9 December 1975, Rolex Guarantee translation paper dated and signed by retailer, spare Rolex leather strap and buckle, product literature, presentation box and outer packaging.
The present example of Paul Newman 6262 not only was recently serviced by Rolex, but is furthermore consigned by the original owner - and consequently never before seen on the market - who religiously preserved its full sale kit, including the English translation of the Guarantee. It is interesting to note how the retailer misspelled the reference number on the document, writing the incorrect number 6252, and noted the code 5x13D. According to Mr. Richard Deacon, current owner of Deacon & Son, this is their internal stock number, handwritten by Mr. Deacon's late father, Mr. Michael Deacon. The warranty offers an interesting insight into the market of the time: this Paul Newman was sold in December 1975 to the present owner while the serial number denotes a production date around 1970/71. The fact that it took several years for this watch to find an owner demonstrates how ironically low in demand Paul Newman Daytonas were at the time of their commercialization, which is the reason behind their scarcity.
In production for a very short time between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, reference 6262 is one of the rarest manually wound Daytona references. It is defined by its metal bezel, pump chronograph buttons (as opposed to the screw down version of its sister reference 6265) and the celebrated calibre 727, final evolution of this family of movements: Rolex will exchange the manually wound calibre with an automatic version in the late 1980s.
We are indebted to Mr. Richard Deacon for the invaluable help with the research of the present timepiece.
The present example of Paul Newman 6262 not only was recently serviced by Rolex, but is furthermore consigned by the original owner - and consequently never before seen on the market - who religiously preserved its full sale kit, including the English translation of the Guarantee. It is interesting to note how the retailer misspelled the reference number on the document, writing the incorrect number 6252, and noted the code 5x13D. According to Mr. Richard Deacon, current owner of Deacon & Son, this is their internal stock number, handwritten by Mr. Deacon's late father, Mr. Michael Deacon. The warranty offers an interesting insight into the market of the time: this Paul Newman was sold in December 1975 to the present owner while the serial number denotes a production date around 1970/71. The fact that it took several years for this watch to find an owner demonstrates how ironically low in demand Paul Newman Daytonas were at the time of their commercialization, which is the reason behind their scarcity.
In production for a very short time between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, reference 6262 is one of the rarest manually wound Daytona references. It is defined by its metal bezel, pump chronograph buttons (as opposed to the screw down version of its sister reference 6265) and the celebrated calibre 727, final evolution of this family of movements: Rolex will exchange the manually wound calibre with an automatic version in the late 1980s.
We are indebted to Mr. Richard Deacon for the invaluable help with the research of the present timepiece.