Reference:6205: Difference between revisions

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== Production outline ==

The 6205 ran for approximately one year. Specialist consensus across Sotheby's, Phillips, Antiquorum, Monochrome, Hairspring~~, Bulang, Wind Vintage~~, and Le Monde Edmond converges on 1954–55. Rolex Passion Report (Philipp Stahl, 2017) extends the window to 1953–56; Wikipedia gives 1953–57 — the latter is an outlier that does not appear in major-house lots or specialist-dealer listings. Goldammer's 2024 reading of The 2024 Submariner book argues the 6204, 6200, and 6205 all hit the market around Basel 1954, with the 6204 first.

The 6205 ran for approximately one year. Specialist consensus across Sotheby's, Phillips, Antiquorum, Monochrome, Hairspring, and Le Monde Edmond converges on 1954–55. Rolex Passion Report (Philipp Stahl, 2017) extends the window to 1953–56; Wikipedia gives 1953–57 — the latter is an outlier that does not appear in major-house lots or specialist-dealer listings. Goldammer's 2024 reading of The 2024 Submariner book argues the 6204, 6200, and 6205 all hit the market around Basel 1954, with the 6204 first.

The reference subdivides into two series. Series 1 (early 1954) carries a clean dial without "Submariner" text, pencil hands, and a lollipop seconds hand inherited from the 6204. Series 2 (still 1954, into 1955) brings "Submariner" back to the dial and introduces Mercedes hands paired with the same lollipop seconds. Monochrome's 2020 Submariner history (referencing Eric Wind) makes the Series 1 / Series 2 framing explicit; (Gustafson, 2018) and Le Monde Edmond (2014) corroborate that pencil-hand examples exist but are rare. The Phillips article 2024 article complicates the Mercedes-hand claim by crediting both the 6200 and the 6205 with the introduction; reading those sources together, the cleanest framing is that 6200 and 6205 ran concurrently in 1954 and both adopted Mercedes hands, with the 6205 sometimes treated as first, sometimes joint-first.

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 == Production outline ==
-The 6205 ran for approximately one year. Specialist consensus across Sotheby's, Phillips, Antiquorum, Monochrome, Hairspring, Bulang, Wind Vintage, and Le Monde Edmond converges on 1954–55. Rolex Passion Report (Philipp Stahl, 2017) extends the window to 1953–56; Wikipedia gives 1953–57 — the latter is an outlier that does not appear in major-house lots or specialist-dealer listings. Goldammer's 2024 reading of The 2024 Submariner book argues the 6204, 6200, and 6205 all hit the market around Basel 1954, with the 6204 first.
+The 6205 ran for approximately one year. Specialist consensus across Sotheby's, Phillips, Antiquorum, Monochrome, Hairspring, and Le Monde Edmond converges on 1954–55. Rolex Passion Report (Philipp Stahl, 2017) extends the window to 1953–56; Wikipedia gives 1953–57 — the latter is an outlier that does not appear in major-house lots or specialist-dealer listings. Goldammer's 2024 reading of The 2024 Submariner book argues the 6204, 6200, and 6205 all hit the market around Basel 1954, with the 6204 first.
 The reference subdivides into two series. Series 1 (early 1954) carries a clean dial without "Submariner" text, pencil hands, and a lollipop seconds hand inherited from the 6204. Series 2 (still 1954, into 1955) brings "Submariner" back to the dial and introduces Mercedes hands paired with the same lollipop seconds. Monochrome's 2020 Submariner history (referencing Eric Wind) makes the Series 1 / Series 2 framing explicit; (Gustafson, 2018) and Le Monde Edmond (2014) corroborate that pencil-hand examples exist but are rare. The Phillips article 2024 article complicates the Mercedes-hand claim by crediting both the 6200 and the 6205 with the introduction; reading those sources together, the cleanest framing is that 6200 and 6205 ran concurrently in 1954 and both adopted Mercedes hands, with the 6205 sometimes treated as first, sometimes joint-first.