Beautiful Rolex Daytona 6263 Paul Newman Coffee Dial

Rolex Daytona - Paul Newman was famous for wearing the Rolex Daytona, which was a gift from his wife of 50 years, Joanne Woodward, once he started auto racing in the early 70s.

The Rolex Daytona is known for being a racing driver’s watch and is even named after the Daytona International Speedway in Florida where Rolex would endorse a race every season. It’s been said that Newman wore this same Rolex Daytona until his death in 2008, survived by his wife who gifted him the watch as mentioned.

Newman’s Daytona also led to a rare Daytona model which included the “Paul Newman” dial.

“A Paul Newman dial must be in a Reference 6239, 6241, 6262, 6263, 6264 or 6265 watch, installed by Rolex Geneva as original. All of these References had acrylic domed crystals. That aside, the sub-dials (the dials that are the opposite or contrasting color of the main dial) of a Paul Newman dial have block markers instead of lines, will have crosshairs across each sub-dial meeting at centre (unlike the normal Daytona), and the seconds sub-dial placed at 9:00 is marked at 15, 30, 45 and 60, whereas a normal Daytona dial is marked at 20, 40 and 60. The dial may or may not have the word “Daytona” written on the dial above the hour sub-dial located at 6:00. The dial came in four color and layout combinations, and was installed as an option by Rolex on the Daytona line of watches in the Reference 6239, 6241, 6262, 6263, 6264 or 6265 watches. The watch has been out of production since the early 1970s, and Rolex is not able to supply any replacement version of it.”

This Rolex Daytona Ref 6263, with ‘Paul Newman’ dial and wonderfully aged dial (“tropical dial” “coffee dial”)

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