CIRCA: 1974
CASE MATERIAL: Stainless steel, inside caseback stamped 6262
DIAMETER: 37.5 mm.
BRACELET: Rolex steel Oyster bracelet stamped 7835 19, endlinks stamped 371
DIAL: Classic panda layout – silvered Sigma dial with black subdials for 30-minute chronograph register at 3 o’ clock, 12-hours at 6, running seconds at 9
MOVEMENT: Valjoux 727, manual-winding
FUNCTIONS: Time, chronograph
BUCKLE: Rolex folding buckle
WITH: Original Rolex certificate of guarantee with the date mentioned December 3, 1974, and presentation box

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Lot Essay

The present reference 6263 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.