Rolex Daytona Wrist Shots: How to Dress (Extremely Expensively) for BaselWorld

Hi guys,

Well, I'm back from the hustle and bustle of BaselWorld, where I saw, as no one here will be surprised to hear, a lot of watches.

One of the people I ran into there, which also no one here will be surprised to hear, is that eminent gentleman of taste, arbiter elegantum et horologium, and generally irreproachably suave man-about-town Wei Koh, whose name may not be entirely unfamiliar.

Upon his wrists on each day were watches various and noble but during our meeting with Rolex/Tudor, here is what I did spy with my little eye:



Pressed for details, Wei replies, "The acrylic crystal one is a 6241 3-color Paul Newman dial Daytona. This is very similar to the model he used to wear which was the same but with a steel bezel instead of the black plastic one you see here (model 6239). While the sapphire crystal one is a 16520 R-series with floating Cosmograph dial and 200-unit bezel (this was only produced for the R-series) it is the first automatic Daytona and represents the first true commercial success for Rolex chronographs."

A diffident response considering these are two of the most collectible Daytonas; a 6241 sold for $138,291 at Sotheby's in a May 2011 auction and the 16250 while less stratospherically costly is nonetheless one of the most historically interesting and important Daytonas.

Jack