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The 6205 is the second small-crown Submariner and the reference where Mercedes hands first appear on a Rolex dive watch. Both pencil-hand and Mercedes-hand configurations are documented within 6205 production, splitting the run into two series. Phillips Game Changers 2019 lot 54 (case 21,354) is the canonical pencil-hand survivor; the majority of surviving examples carry Mercedes. The Phillips article by Logan Baker (2024) credits the 6200 and the 6205 jointly with the Mercedes-hand introduction; Hodinkee and Le Monde Edmond attribute the Mercedes hand specifically to the 6205. Both readings appear in the auction record. | The 6205 is the second small-crown Submariner and the reference where Mercedes hands first appear on a Rolex dive watch. Both pencil-hand and Mercedes-hand configurations are documented within 6205 production, splitting the run into two series. Phillips Game Changers 2019 lot 54 (case 21,354) is the canonical pencil-hand survivor; the majority of surviving examples carry Mercedes. The Phillips article by Logan Baker (2024) credits the 6200 and the 6205 jointly with the Mercedes-hand introduction; Hodinkee and Le Monde Edmond attribute the Mercedes hand specifically to the 6205. Both readings appear in the auction record. | ||
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== Case, bezel, crystal, and crown == | == Case, bezel, crystal, and crown == | ||
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The 6205 case measures 37mm without crown, with a 47mm lug-to-lug profile. It carries the no-crown-guard architecture and acrylic crystal common to the early Submariner family. The early friction-rotating dive bezel sits unchanged from the 6204; Editorial coverage places the bezel in the same lineage as the 6202 Turn-O-Graph that preceded it. The bezel insert reads no-hash on Series 1 examples (no minute graduations between zero and 15); One specialist-documented 1954 example documents a red-triangle insert with the twelve-o'clock marker filled in red enamel — an early bezel-style outlier. | The 6205 case measures 37mm without crown, with a 47mm lug-to-lug profile. It carries the no-crown-guard architecture and acrylic crystal common to the early Submariner family. The early friction-rotating dive bezel sits unchanged from the 6204; Editorial coverage places the bezel in the same lineage as the 6202 Turn-O-Graph that preceded it. The bezel insert reads no-hash on Series 1 examples (no minute graduations between zero and 15); One specialist-documented 1954 example documents a red-triangle insert with the twelve-o'clock marker filled in red enamel — an early bezel-style outlier. | ||
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The 6205 trades on the Series 1 / Series 2 split. Phillips's pencil-hand 21,354 example anchors the upper end of the unmolested-original market at USD 162,500. Restored or reprinted-dial examples sit at the lower end — Antiquorum's 2025 Geneva lot 377 cleared at CHF 16,250 against a 5,000–10,000 estimate. The 6205 is where the modern Submariner silhouette starts; the Mercedes hand introduction here defines the line through the 5508, the 5512, and the 5513 and forward. | The 6205 trades on the Series 1 / Series 2 split. Phillips's pencil-hand 21,354 example anchors the upper end of the unmolested-original market at USD 162,500. Restored or reprinted-dial examples sit at the lower end — Antiquorum's 2025 Geneva lot 377 cleared at CHF 16,250 against a 5,000–10,000 estimate. The 6205 is where the modern Submariner silhouette starts; the Mercedes hand introduction here defines the line through the 5508, the 5512, and the 5513 and forward. | ||
== Related references == | == Related references == | ||