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The 6262 is the brief 1970–1972 transitional Daytona that pairs the older pump-pusher case of the 6239 with the new high-frequency caliber 727. It carries the engraved metal tachymetric bezel of its 6239 ancestor, runs in parallel with its acrylic-bezel sibling 6264, and was overtaken within two years by the screw-pusher (screw-down chronograph pushers) 6263 / 6265 pair that closed the manual-wind era. ~~Production was small and~~ the reference ~~is one of the rarer manual-wind Daytonas~~ in the ~~secondary market~~.

The 6262 is the brief 1970–1972 transitional Daytona that pairs the older pump-pusher case of the 6239 with the new high-frequency caliber 727. It carries the engraved metal tachymetric bezel of its 6239 ancestor, runs in parallel with its acrylic-bezel sibling 6264, and was overtaken within two years by the screw-pusher (screw-down chronograph pushers) 6263 / 6265 pair that closed the manual-wind era. No factory production total is published for the reference; surviving examples are documented in the auction record.

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The 6262 dial group is small. Standard production wore the “Rolex Cosmograph” three-line dial: the older two-line text block of the pre-Oyster 6239 era, without the “Oyster” line that the screw-pusher Oyster 6240 / 6263 / 6265 references carry. The “Daytona” wording appears above the 6 o’clock sub-dial register, the position it had migrated to by 1967 across the manual-wind line. Both panda (white dial, black sub-dials) and reverse panda (black dial, white sub-dials) configurations appear on standard examples.

~~A smaller share carried~~ Paul Newman exotic dials. The ~~6262~~ is ~~a genuine Paul Newman host~~, ~~much rarer here than on the 6263 or 6265~~. Late Sigma dials and tropical ageing on period black dials both turn up across the run, but they are overlays on the panda / reverse panda / Paul Newman split rather than separate dial families.

The cited records include Paul Newman exotic dials on some 6262 examples. The dial is not unique to this reference and needs case, movement and provenance checks. Late Sigma dials and tropical ageing on period black dials both turn up across the run, but they are overlays on the panda / reverse panda / Paul Newman split rather than separate dial families.

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The 6262 sits across the 7205-to-7835 bracelet transition. Early watches can be on 7205, later ones on 7835, both with end-link 271. The often-repeated “771” reading is just an OCR error for 271.

Two Bonhams-catalogued 6262 Paul Newman examples complicate that figure rather than confirming it cleanly: a December 2012 lot (case back stamped 6239, £55,250) and a June 2013 lot sold by the original owner (£46,850, with original box and a dated guarantee booklet recording retail sale on 6 December 1975 — five years after the 1970 case date) both describe their 7835 bracelets as fitted with "357 end pieces," not 271. ~~Whether~~ 357 ~~denotes a genuine~~ alternate stamp, a bracelet~~-reference~~ suffix, or a ~~cataloguer~~ reading ~~the same part differently is not resolved here — it is recorded as a documented~~ conflict with ~~the~~ 271 ~~figure, not folded into it~~.

Two Bonhams-catalogued 6262 Paul Newman examples complicate that figure rather than confirming it cleanly: a December 2012 lot (case back stamped 6239, £55,250) and a June 2013 lot sold by the original owner (£46,850, with original box and a dated guarantee booklet recording retail sale on 6 December 1975 — five years after the 1970 case date) both describe their 7835 bracelets as fitted with "357 end pieces," not 271. The source does not establish whether 357 is an alternate stamp, a bracelet suffix or a catalogue reading. The conflict with 271 remains recorded as lot-specific evidence.

Clasps date the bracelet, not the watch head. Pre-1976 clasps carry quarterly numeric stamps inside the clasp blade in roman quarter / two-digit year format (“II.71” reads second quarter 1971). The 6262’s three-year run sits entirely in this pre-letter-code era. Both 7205 and 7835 use the small-logo folding clasp generation that ran from 1958 to roughly 1976. For the date-code key and the bracelet generation table, see [[Reference:Bracelets]].

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=== Paul Newman 6262 ===

The Paul Newman ~~dial appears on the 6262 in much smaller numbers~~ than on the 6263 or 6265. The dial itself is not unique to this reference, so the collector test is whether the exotic dial, the matching pump-pusher case, the cal 727 movement, and the period bracelet all line up as one delivered watch rather than a later marriage.

The cited records include fewer 6262 Paul Newman examples than the broader 6263/6265 literature, but no production ratio is established. The dial itself is not unique to this reference, so the collector test is whether the exotic dial, the matching pump-pusher case, the cal 727 movement, and the period bracelet all line up as one delivered watch rather than a later marriage.

Three documented Paul Newman 6262 examples sit in the Bonhams London record: a December 2012 sale (£55,250, owned from new by a competitive sailor, case back stamped 6239 rather than 6262), the original-owner example from June 2013 above (£46,850), and a family-owned example never before offered at auction, sold in June 2017 in the £70,000–90,000 estimate range.

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=== Tropical 6262 ===

Tropical 6262 dials are ~~production-period~~ black dials that have aged to brown or chocolate ~~under UV exposure~~. ~~They exist but are scarcer than tropical 6263 / 6265 examples by virtue of the smaller~~ population. Christie’s catalogued one such example, a 1970 6262 with tropical-register dial, as lot 2043 in ''Passion for Time: An Important Private Collection of Watches and Timepieces'' (Geneva, 6 November 2023). The browning comes from the same lacquer instability documented across the period; the black pigment in the dial lacquer was unstable to light and heat, and decades of wear drove the colour shift. ~~Tropical examples carry~~ a ~~significant~~ premium ~~where the~~ case, movement, and ~~pushers all read period-correct~~.

Tropical 6262 dials are black dials that have aged to brown or chocolate; the cited Christie’s lot documents one example. The sources do not establish a comparative population. Christie’s catalogued one such example, a 1970 6262 with tropical-register dial, as lot 2043 in ''Passion for Time: An Important Private Collection of Watches and Timepieces'' (Geneva, 6 November 2023). The browning comes from the same lacquer instability documented across the period; the black pigment in the dial lacquer was unstable to light and heat, and decades of wear drove the colour shift. The cited lot does not establish a general premium rule; case, movement and pusher fitment remain individual checks.

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== Historical market and auction record ==

The 6262 sits on the scarcer side of the manual-wind Daytona market because the production run was short. Standard examples trade below the Paul Newman tier but above the broader 6239 field, and the big thematic Daytona auctions helped pull the whole category upward. Auction depth is ~~thinner here~~ than on the 6263 and 6265, so ~~single-lot results matter more~~. The clearest recent datapoint is Christie’s Geneva, 6 November 2023, lot 2043 — a 1970 example with tropical registers, case 2'416'687 — which realised CHF 110,880 against an CHF 88,000–140,000 estimate.

The cited auction record is smaller than the 6263 and 6265 records. Results differ by dial, provenance, condition and venue, so individual lots should be compared directly. The clearest recent datapoint is Christie’s Geneva, 6 November 2023, lot 2043 — a 1970 example with tropical registers, case 2'416'687 — which realised CHF 110,880 against an CHF 88,000–140,000 estimate.

Five Bonhams lots between 2009 and 2017, plus one Antiquorum result, give the reference a real trail beyond that single Christie's result. The earliest, a standard Cosmograph sold in June 2009 for £30,000 (case 2533340, retailed January 1972, two years after its 1970 manufacture), predates the rest of the trail by three years. From 2012 onward, in chronological order: the Paul Newman sold for £55,250 in December 2012 (case back stamped 6239); the original-owner standard Cosmograph sold for £46,850 in June 2013, with its original box and a guarantee booklet dated 6 December 1975; a dual-stamped "Ref:6262/6264" example that sold for £84,100 in June 2014; and the family-owned Paul Newman that sold in the £70,000–90,000 range in June 2017. Antiquorum's Forte dei Marmi sale added a non-Bonhams datapoint in June 2022, a standard example (case 2476816) that made EUR 62,640 against a CHF 31,200–63,000 estimate; the house's own catalogue essay frames the 6262 as differing from the 6239 "only concerning the movement" and pairs it with the 6264 as "the latest Rolex chronograph with pump pushers."

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== Related references ==

* [[Reference:6264|Daytona 6264]] — Paul Newman ~~Dials~~ (1970–1972)

* [[Reference:6264|Daytona 6264]], Paul Newman dials (1970–1972)

* [[Reference:6241|Daytona 6241]] ~~— "John~~ Player Special", ~~14k Gold~~ (1966–1969)

* [[Reference:6241|Daytona 6241]], “John Player Special,” 14K gold (1966–1969)

* [[Reference:6240|Daytona 6240]] ~~— First Screw~~-~~Down~~-~~Pusher~~ Daytona (1965–1969)

* [[Reference:6240|Daytona 6240]], first screw-down-pusher Daytona (1965–1969)

* [[Reference:6263|Daytona 6263]] — Paul Newman, Big Red & RCO ~~Dials~~ (1969–1988)

* [[Reference:6263|Daytona 6263]], Paul Newman, Big Red and RCO dials (1969–1988)

* [[Reference:6265|Daytona 6265]] ~~— Screw~~-~~Pusher~~ Oyster (1971–1988)

* [[Reference:6265|Daytona 6265]], screw-pusher Oyster (1971–1988)

* [[Reference:6234|Daytona 6234]] ~~— Pre~~-Daytona (1955–1961)

* [[Reference:6234|Daytona 6234]], pre-Daytona (1955–1961)

See also the [[Reference:daytona|Daytona family index]], [[Reference:Movements|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers|serial numbers by year]].

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-The 6262 is the brief 1970–1972 transitional Daytona that pairs the older pump-pusher case of the 6239 with the new high-frequency caliber 727. It carries the engraved metal tachymetric bezel of its 6239 ancestor, runs in parallel with its acrylic-bezel sibling 6264, and was overtaken within two years by the screw-pusher (screw-down chronograph pushers) 6263 / 6265 pair that closed the manual-wind era. Production was small and the reference is one of the rarer manual-wind Daytonas in the secondary market.
+The 6262 is the brief 1970–1972 transitional Daytona that pairs the older pump-pusher case of the 6239 with the new high-frequency caliber 727. It carries the engraved metal tachymetric bezel of its 6239 ancestor, runs in parallel with its acrylic-bezel sibling 6264, and was overtaken within two years by the screw-pusher (screw-down chronograph pushers) 6263 / 6265 pair that closed the manual-wind era. No factory production total is published for the reference; surviving examples are documented in the auction record.
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 The 6262 dial group is small. Standard production wore the “Rolex Cosmograph” three-line dial: the older two-line text block of the pre-Oyster 6239 era, without the “Oyster” line that the screw-pusher Oyster 6240 / 6263 / 6265 references carry. The “Daytona” wording appears above the 6 o’clock sub-dial register, the position it had migrated to by 1967 across the manual-wind line. Both panda (white dial, black sub-dials) and reverse panda (black dial, white sub-dials) configurations appear on standard examples.
-A smaller share carried Paul Newman exotic dials. The 6262 is a genuine Paul Newman host, much rarer here than on the 6263 or 6265. Late Sigma dials and tropical ageing on period black dials both turn up across the run, but they are overlays on the panda / reverse panda / Paul Newman split rather than separate dial families.
+The cited records include Paul Newman exotic dials on some 6262 examples. The dial is not unique to this reference and needs case, movement and provenance checks. Late Sigma dials and tropical ageing on period black dials both turn up across the run, but they are overlays on the panda / reverse panda / Paul Newman split rather than separate dial families.
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 The 6262 sits across the 7205-to-7835 bracelet transition. Early watches can be on 7205, later ones on 7835, both with end-link 271. The often-repeated “771” reading is just an OCR error for 271.
-Two Bonhams-catalogued 6262 Paul Newman examples complicate that figure rather than confirming it cleanly: a December 2012 lot (case back stamped 6239, £55,250) and a June 2013 lot sold by the original owner (£46,850, with original box and a dated guarantee booklet recording retail sale on 6 December 1975 — five years after the 1970 case date) both describe their 7835 bracelets as fitted with "357 end pieces," not 271. Whether 357 denotes a genuine alternate stamp, a bracelet-reference suffix, or a cataloguer reading the same part differently is not resolved here — it is recorded as a documented conflict with the 271 figure, not folded into it.
+Two Bonhams-catalogued 6262 Paul Newman examples complicate that figure rather than confirming it cleanly: a December 2012 lot (case back stamped 6239, £55,250) and a June 2013 lot sold by the original owner (£46,850, with original box and a dated guarantee booklet recording retail sale on 6 December 1975 — five years after the 1970 case date) both describe their 7835 bracelets as fitted with "357 end pieces," not 271. The source does not establish whether 357 is an alternate stamp, a bracelet suffix or a catalogue reading. The conflict with 271 remains recorded as lot-specific evidence.
 Clasps date the bracelet, not the watch head. Pre-1976 clasps carry quarterly numeric stamps inside the clasp blade in roman quarter / two-digit year format (“II.71” reads second quarter 1971). The 6262’s three-year run sits entirely in this pre-letter-code era. Both 7205 and 7835 use the small-logo folding clasp generation that ran from 1958 to roughly 1976. For the date-code key and the bracelet generation table, see [[Reference:Bracelets]].
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 === Paul Newman 6262 ===
-The Paul Newman dial appears on the 6262 in much smaller numbers than on the 6263 or 6265. The dial itself is not unique to this reference, so the collector test is whether the exotic dial, the matching pump-pusher case, the cal 727 movement, and the period bracelet all line up as one delivered watch rather than a later marriage.
+The cited records include fewer 6262 Paul Newman examples than the broader 6263/6265 literature, but no production ratio is established. The dial itself is not unique to this reference, so the collector test is whether the exotic dial, the matching pump-pusher case, the cal 727 movement, and the period bracelet all line up as one delivered watch rather than a later marriage.
 Three documented Paul Newman 6262 examples sit in the Bonhams London record: a December 2012 sale (£55,250, owned from new by a competitive sailor, case back stamped 6239 rather than 6262), the original-owner example from June 2013 above (£46,850), and a family-owned example never before offered at auction, sold in June 2017 in the £70,000–90,000 estimate range.
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 === Tropical 6262 ===
-Tropical 6262 dials are production-period black dials that have aged to brown or chocolate under UV exposure. They exist but are scarcer than tropical 6263 / 6265 examples by virtue of the smaller population. Christie’s catalogued one such example, a 1970 6262 with tropical-register dial, as lot 2043 in ''Passion for Time: An Important Private Collection of Watches and Timepieces'' (Geneva, 6 November 2023). The browning comes from the same lacquer instability documented across the period; the black pigment in the dial lacquer was unstable to light and heat, and decades of wear drove the colour shift. Tropical examples carry a significant premium where the case, movement, and pushers all read period-correct.
+Tropical 6262 dials are black dials that have aged to brown or chocolate; the cited Christie’s lot documents one example. The sources do not establish a comparative population. Christie’s catalogued one such example, a 1970 6262 with tropical-register dial, as lot 2043 in ''Passion for Time: An Important Private Collection of Watches and Timepieces'' (Geneva, 6 November 2023). The browning comes from the same lacquer instability documented across the period; the black pigment in the dial lacquer was unstable to light and heat, and decades of wear drove the colour shift. The cited lot does not establish a general premium rule; case, movement and pusher fitment remain individual checks.
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 == Historical market and auction record ==
-The 6262 sits on the scarcer side of the manual-wind Daytona market because the production run was short. Standard examples trade below the Paul Newman tier but above the broader 6239 field, and the big thematic Daytona auctions helped pull the whole category upward. Auction depth is thinner here than on the 6263 and 6265, so single-lot results matter more. The clearest recent datapoint is Christie’s Geneva, 6 November 2023, lot 2043 — a 1970 example with tropical registers, case 2'416'687 — which realised CHF 110,880 against an CHF 88,000–140,000 estimate.
+The cited auction record is smaller than the 6263 and 6265 records. Results differ by dial, provenance, condition and venue, so individual lots should be compared directly. The clearest recent datapoint is Christie’s Geneva, 6 November 2023, lot 2043 — a 1970 example with tropical registers, case 2'416'687 — which realised CHF 110,880 against an CHF 88,000–140,000 estimate.
 Five Bonhams lots between 2009 and 2017, plus one Antiquorum result, give the reference a real trail beyond that single Christie's result. The earliest, a standard Cosmograph sold in June 2009 for £30,000 (case 2533340, retailed January 1972, two years after its 1970 manufacture), predates the rest of the trail by three years. From 2012 onward, in chronological order: the Paul Newman sold for £55,250 in December 2012 (case back stamped 6239); the original-owner standard Cosmograph sold for £46,850 in June 2013, with its original box and a guarantee booklet dated 6 December 1975; a dual-stamped "Ref:6262/6264" example that sold for £84,100 in June 2014; and the family-owned Paul Newman that sold in the £70,000–90,000 range in June 2017. Antiquorum's Forte dei Marmi sale added a non-Bonhams datapoint in June 2022, a standard example (case 2476816) that made EUR 62,640 against a CHF 31,200–63,000 estimate; the house's own catalogue essay frames the 6262 as differing from the 6239 "only concerning the movement" and pairs it with the 6264 as "the latest Rolex chronograph with pump pushers."
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 == Related references ==
-* [[Reference:6264|Daytona 6264]] — Paul Newman Dials (1970–1972)
+* [[Reference:6264|Daytona 6264]], Paul Newman dials (1970–1972)
-* [[Reference:6241|Daytona 6241]] — "John Player Special", 14k Gold (1966–1969)
+* [[Reference:6241|Daytona 6241]], “John Player Special,” 14K gold (1966–1969)
-* [[Reference:6240|Daytona 6240]] — First Screw-Down-Pusher Daytona (1965–1969)
+* [[Reference:6240|Daytona 6240]], first screw-down-pusher Daytona (1965–1969)
-* [[Reference:6263|Daytona 6263]] — Paul Newman, Big Red & RCO Dials (1969–1988)
+* [[Reference:6263|Daytona 6263]], Paul Newman, Big Red and RCO dials (1969–1988)
-* [[Reference:6265|Daytona 6265]] — Screw-Pusher Oyster (1971–1988)
+* [[Reference:6265|Daytona 6265]], screw-pusher Oyster (1971–1988)
-* [[Reference:6234|Daytona 6234]] — Pre-Daytona (1955–1961)
+* [[Reference:6234|Daytona 6234]], pre-Daytona (1955–1961)
 See also the [[Reference:daytona|Daytona family index]], [[Reference:Movements|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers|serial numbers by year]].