Details
Circa: 1975
Movement: Manual, Cal. 727, 17 jewels
Dial: Silvered Sigma Dial, baton numerals with luminous accents, luminous hands, three black subsidiary dials
Case: Stainless steel, screw back, two screw down buttons in the band, inside case back stamped 6265, 37mm diam.
Bracelet/Clasp: Rolex Oyster bracelet and deployant clasp, stamped 76, overall approximate length 8 inches
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The present reference 6265 features a dial that is known as a "Sigma" dial, indicated by two small Sigma symbols on either side of the "T Swiss T". The Sigma symbols indicate that the baton numerals and hands on a dial are made of gold, in this case white gold. Sigma dials were first seen on the reference 6240, and were nicknamed "Goute A Prior" by Italian collectors and originally referred to the union of three Rolex dial producers: Singer, Stern, and Beyeler. On later references, the Sigma came to refer to indices and hands in gold.

For a note on the "Goute A Prior", see Rolex Daytona, a legend is born by Carlo Pergola, Stefano Mazzariol, & Giovanni Doss, p. 82. An example of a reference 6263 with Sigma Dial is illustrated on p. 136.

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