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A white main dial carries silver sub-dials, with no Daytona line above 6 o'clock and printed hour markers in place of the applied block markers used on standard 6263 production. The known watches all pair the pale dial with a similarly pale bezel.

Three Albino 6263 examples appear in the English-language auction record.

Two further Albino examples appear in the literature, usually attributed to John Goldberger's collection. Public documentation on both is thinner than on the Clapton watch.

The Albino is the most contested dial in the manual-wind Daytona category. Three positions sit in the published literature, none of them retracted.

Sotheby's Abu Dhabi sold the third Albino example in December 2025 for USD 952,500. The catalogue described the dial as of unknown origin, declining to endorse either the factory-variant reading or the later-construction reading even after Perezcope had published and Bolt had reportedly briefed the house directly.

Factory variant, late construction, and unresolved origins all stay on the record. The literature has not closed the argument and the market keeps trading the watch regardless, with each subsequent result effectively a buyer's verdict on which reading they accept.

The Albino sits in its own category. It carries neither the contrasting sub-dials of a Paul Newman nor the heat-shifted patina of a tropical, and the printed markers and missing Daytona line keep it well outside standard 6263 production. The host watches themselves are conventional: period-correct 6263 cases and cal. 727 movements, so what is contested is the dial alone.