CHARACTERISTICS

• Produced from 1963 to 1969. In Europe, it started being produced in 1964.

• First Rolex Daytona to have the tachymeter insert in the bezel.

• Produced in stainless steel, 14kt and 18kt gold.

• Around 13,700 stainless steel pieces were made and only around 300 units were made in gold.

  • 922.900 is the serial number of the first known Daytona.

• Realised in both standard two-tone and Paul Newman dials.

  • Only around 2,000 to 3,000 units were produced with a Paul Newman dial.

  • The DAYTONA printing signature, inserted around 1965, was introduced in the dial to celebrate Rolex’s historic sponsorship of Nascar stock car race in Daytona Beach.

    • Initially positioned on the top, at 12 o’clock position under the COSMOGRAPH signature, and then later found above the hour totalizer from the second half of the 1960’s on.

• The reference 6239 was bearing an OYSTER case.

• Pump push-down buttons in chromed metal, model 24-P3.

• OYSTER TWINLOCK 600 series winding crown in ridged metal with raised underlined Rolex logo.

• Domed plexiglas crystal, model TROPIC 21.

• Metal hands covered in white on black background and burnished metal on white background.

• The first series have a symmetrical tonneau shape case with a flat and polished case-back.

• From 1966 on, the reference 6239 is produced with a convex tonneau shape case with a flat and satin-brushed case-back.

• Upper lug (12 o'clock) ---> REGISTERED DESIGN

                                                                   6239

• Lower lug (6 o'clock)--->     Serial number 

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