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== Production outline == | == Production outline == | ||
The 6542 reads in three paths rather than as a single chronology: the steel bakelite watch, the gold bakelite watch, and the service-path survivor. The run was short enough that a year-by-year generation map would invent precision the production record does not support. | The 6542 reads in three paths rather than as a single chronology: the steel bakelite watch, the gold bakelite watch, and the service-path survivor. The run was short enough that a year-by-year generation map would invent precision the production record does not support. | ||
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=== Gold bakelite watch === | === Gold bakelite watch === | ||
[[File:Ref 6542 gold-brown.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Gold 6542 with brown bakelite|Gold 6542 with brown bakelite]] | |||
The gold branch runs in parallel from the start. Brown bakelite bezel, alpha hands, lighter dial palette: under the same reference number the gold watch reads as a separate model. | The gold branch runs in parallel from the start. Brown bakelite bezel, alpha hands, lighter dial palette: under the same reference number the gold watch reads as a separate model. | ||
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=== Service-path watch === | === Service-path watch === | ||
[[File:Ref 6542 service-example.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Service-path 6542 with metal insert|Service-path 6542 with metal insert]] | |||
Bakelite cracks. Later service cycles replaced inserts wholesale, and often took the dial and hands along with them. A 6542 carrying a metal insert is not automatically a lesser watch, but it is a different watch from an untouched bakelite example and has to be priced and read on those terms. | Bakelite cracks. Later service cycles replaced inserts wholesale, and often took the dial and hands along with them. A 6542 carrying a metal insert is not automatically a lesser watch, but it is a different watch from an untouched bakelite example and has to be priced and read on those terms. | ||
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== Special branches == | == Special branches == | ||
<span id="gold-65428"></span> | <span id="gold-65428"></span> | ||
=== Gold 6542/8 === | === Gold 6542/8 === | ||
[[File:Ref 6542 gold-bonanno.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Gold 6542/8 on gold bracelet|Gold 6542/8 on gold bracelet]] | |||
Brown bakelite bezel, alpha hands, lighter dial palette: the gold watch is separated from the steel one from launch. | Brown bakelite bezel, alpha hands, lighter dial palette: the gold watch is separated from the steel one from launch. | ||
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The gold side is better evidenced than it was, but it remains the weak point in the auction layer. Two serious gold listings (one on bracelet, one on leather) carry enough weight to write the branch with confidence; neither replaces a direct gold auction lot from a top-tier house, which is what the documented record still needs. | The gold side is better evidenced than it was, but it remains the weak point in the auction layer. Two serious gold listings (one on bracelet, one on leather) carry enough weight to write the branch with confidence; neither replaces a direct gold auction lot from a top-tier house, which is what the documented record still needs. | ||
== Related references == | == Related references == | ||