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Tenzing Norgay is variously claimed in dealer-side editorial to have worn a 6098 prototype on the climb. Some Phillips and Sotheby's editorial pieces frame the Tenzing watch as "a prototype of this watch [6150]," but no surviving Tenzing watch has been authenticated as a 6150. Rolex did supply expedition watches to the 1953 Everest team for accuracy testing; these were chronometer-rated reference 6098s, returned to Rolex post-expedition for accuracy data. | Tenzing Norgay is variously claimed in dealer-side editorial to have worn a 6098 prototype on the climb. Some Phillips and Sotheby's editorial pieces frame the Tenzing watch as "a prototype of this watch [6150]," but no surviving Tenzing watch has been authenticated as a 6150. Rolex did supply expedition watches to the 1953 Everest team for accuracy testing; these were chronometer-rated reference 6098s, returned to Rolex post-expedition for accuracy data. | ||
The clearer expedition-watch story for the 6150 is Kangchenjunga 1955, not Everest 1953. Phillips Geneva Watch Auction SIX (10 November 2017) lot 244 sold George Band's caseback-engraved 6150 (case 945,021, "KANGCHENJUNGA 1955 G.C BAND") for CHF 200,000 | The clearer expedition-watch story for the 6150 is Kangchenjunga 1955, not Everest 1953. Phillips Geneva Watch Auction SIX (10 November 2017) lot 244 sold George Band's caseback-engraved 6150 (case 945,021, "KANGCHENJUNGA 1955 G.C BAND") for CHF 200,000. Phillips Perpetual handled Tony Streather's 6150 from the same 1955 expedition by private treaty in 2024. Both watches were drawn from existing Rolex case stock dating to 1953. | ||
Net for the article: drop or heavily qualify any "Hillary's actual Explorer" framing. The 6150's expedition pedigree runs through the 1955 British Kangchenjunga team (Band, Streather), not Hillary or Tenzing on Everest. | Net for the article: drop or heavily qualify any "Hillary's actual Explorer" framing. The 6150's expedition pedigree runs through the 1955 British Kangchenjunga team (Band, Streather), not Hillary or Tenzing on Everest. | ||