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== Case, bezel, crystal, and crown ==

The 6264 case is 36mm steel, the standard manual-wind Daytona case across the 6262 / 6263 / 6264 / 6265 group. Yellow gold examples in 14k were made for the North American market and 18k for export; gold cases are scarce across the brief production run, and a gold 6264 with a Paul Newman dial is among the rarest dial-and-case combinations of the manual-wind era.

The 6264 case is 36mm steel, the standard manual-wind Daytona case across the 6262 / 6263 / 6264 / 6265 group. Yellow gold examples in 14k were made for the North American market and 18k for export; gold cases are scarce across the brief production run, and a gold 6264 with a Paul Newman dial is among the rarest dial-and-case combinations of the manual-wind era. A documented 14K gold example, case No.2802729, made in 1970, sold at Antiquorum New York in September 2014 for USD 81,250 — bi-colour champagne and black dial, applied yellow-gold faceted baton indexes, cal. 727.

The pump pushers are the watch’s defining feature against the contemporary 6263, which carries the same case and bezel but adds threaded screw-down pusher tubes. Pump pushers are unthreaded, sit slightly proud of the case, and actuate without unscrewing. The trade-off shows up in water resistance: the screw-pusher 6263 is rated to 100m, the 6264 to the lower 50m rating common to the pump-pusher generation. The Twinlock screw-down crown is the same on both. Neither watch was meant for chronograph use underwater; the screw-pusher revision answered accidental actuation more than depth rating.

The bezel insert is black acrylic, marked with a tachymetric scale to 400 units per hour. The 6262 splits from the 6264 here and only here — engraved metal versus acrylic, with the rest of the case and movement identical. The same acrylic component runs on the 6263 through its full 1969–1988 production, so the 6264 effectively sets the bezel design that the screw-pusher reference then carried for another eighteen years.

The 6264's case blanks were genuinely dual-stamped with sibling references, which bears directly on the bezel-material dispute above. Two Bonhams lots — an 18K gold "Khanjar" Sultanate of Oman dial example sold in London for £124,860 in June 2024, and a steel example sold for £38,400 in June 2025 — are both catalogued as "Ref: 6263 between the lugs, 6264 inside case back." Both carry screw-down pushers, meaning both are functionally 6263s despite the 6264 caseback stamp. A third lot, catalogued directly as "Ref:6262/6264" and sold in London for £84,100 in 2014, shows the same practice on the pump-pusher side ([[Reference:6262]]). A single case-stamp reading is not sufficient on its own to settle which reference a given watch belongs to across this cluster.

Crystal is acrylic, a flat-domed Twinlock-compatible plexi consistent with the era and the rest of the manual-wind Daytona group. The crown is a Twinlock screw-down, period-standard for water-resistant Oyster sport watches before Triplock entered the line on the deeper-spec divers.

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The Paul Newman 6264 is the rarest standard branch of the reference. The exotic dial appears on 6264 cases in both panda and tri-color configurations, but documented examples are thin on the ground; the configuration earns its scarcity premium more from low survival than from any factory-defined limited run. The 6264 Paul Newman sits in the same Mk1 / Mk2 framework that runs across the early-1970s Paul Newman Daytonas, with the early square-marker geometry and cross-haired sub-dials that define the type.

Retailer-signed examples (Tiffany, Beyer, Cartier, Asprey, Serpico y Laino) are ~~theoretically possible on the 6264 but~~ rare relative to the longer-running 6263 host. Retailer signatures were applied locally rather than at Rolex Switzerland. A clean ~~Tiffany or Beyer~~ signature on a documented 6264 is a notable lot when one surfaces, but the 6264 is not a meaningful market for retailer dials in the way the 6263 is.

Retailer-signed examples (Tiffany, Beyer, Cartier, Asprey, Serpico y Laino) are rare relative to the longer-running 6263 host, but at least one documented 6264 example exists: a Paul Newman "Linz" sold at Antiquorum Geneva in November 2017 for CHF 275,000, signed for Linz Brothers, the Dallas jewelry firm that Rolex Watch USA sold through from 1945 and that the lot notes describe as the top-selling Rolex dealer in North America by 1950. Antiquorum's catalogue called it "never offered at auction before" and "probably the rarest Paul Newman version with an exclusive retailer-signed dial." Retailer signatures were applied locally rather than at Rolex Switzerland. A clean retailer signature on a documented 6264 is a notable lot when one surfaces, but the 6264 is not a meaningful market for retailer dials in the way the 6263 is.

== Historical market and auction record ==

The 6264 has not produced the headline single-lot results that the 6263 has accumulated across Christie’s “Daytona Lesson One” (Geneva, 2013) and Phillips’ “Daytona Ultimatum” (Geneva, 2018). Phillips’ Daytona Ultimatum did include the 6264 within its catalogued field, and the broader Phillips manual-wind round-up at the Geneva Watch Auction XX in November 2024 covered 6264 examples in its fourteen-lot set, but no 6264-specific lot has reached the seven- or eight-figure tier of the named 6263 special branches.

The 6264 has not produced the headline single-lot results that the 6263 has accumulated across Christie’s “Daytona Lesson One” (Geneva, 2013) and Phillips’ “Daytona Ultimatum” (Geneva, 2018). Phillips’ Daytona Ultimatum did include the 6264 within its catalogued field, and the broader Phillips manual-wind round-up at the Geneva Watch Auction XX in November 2024 covered 6264 examples in its fourteen-lot set, but no 6264-specific lot has reached the seven- or eight-figure tier of the named 6263 special branches. A specific, well-documented 6264 result exists at the high end regardless: the Linz Brothers retailer-signed Paul Newman (Antiquorum Geneva, November 2017) sold for CHF 275,000.

The market for standard 6264s sits between the single-year 6262 (rarer pump-pusher sibling) and the long-running 6263 (more common successor). The acrylic-bezel-plus-pump-pusher combination is uncommon, and the short production run keeps surfacing examples scarce against the 6263. Sigma-marked dials and Big Red configurations do not appear on 6264 because the reference closed before either dial trait entered production. The check that matters is whether case, dial, hands, and pushers are correct to the 1970–72 window. Screw-down pushers on a 6264 indicate a modification to its original specification.

The market for standard 6264s sits between the single-year 6262 (rarer pump-pusher sibling) and the long-running 6263 (more common successor). The acrylic-bezel-plus-pump-pusher combination is uncommon, and the short production run keeps surfacing examples scarce against the 6263. Sigma-marked dials and Big Red configurations do not appear on 6264 because the reference closed before either dial trait entered production. The check that matters is whether case, dial, hands, and pushers are correct to the 1970–72 window, including whether the case carries a clean single 6264 stamp or the dual 6262/6264 or 6263/6264 case-stamping documented above — not itself a flaw, but it needs to match the rest of the watch. Screw-down pushers on a 6264 indicate a modification to its original specification.

The Paul Newman 6264 occupies the high end of the reference’s market. ~~Documented 6264 PN sales~~ sit comfortably into ~~seven~~ figures with provenance ~~and original parts~~; without provenance ~~they~~ are difficult to authenticate cleanly given how many 6263 PN dials and case parts have circulated through service since the 1970s.

The Paul Newman 6264 occupies the high end of the reference’s market. The Linz Brothers example above and a second, non-retailer-signed Paul Newman sold at Antiquorum Monaco in July 2018 for EUR 161,000 both sit comfortably into six figures with clean provenance; without provenance, PN examples are difficult to authenticate cleanly given how many 6263 PN dials and case parts have circulated through service since the 1970s. The 2018 Monaco lot's own catalogue notes state the reference "was produced for approximately 2 years in about 2000 pieces" and that its caseback is "often" punched with the neighbouring reference 6241 rather than 6264 — a third documented instance of cross-reference case stamping on this generation, and a figure (roughly 2,000 pieces) offered here as one auction house's working estimate rather than a confirmed factory total.

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* [https://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/ Vintage Watch Straps — Rolex bracelet and clasp reference] — David Boettcher, vintagewatchstraps.com

* ''The Vintage Rolex Field Manual'' — Colin A. White, Morning Tundra

* [https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/rolex-ref-6264-lot-285-89 Rolex ref 6264 14K yellow gold, case 2802729 — Antiquorum New York] (Antiquorum, 2014)

* [https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/rolex-ref-6264-daytona-paul-newman-lot-310-235 Rolex Daytona ref 6264 "Paul Newman" Linz Brothers retailer-signed — Antiquorum Geneva] (Antiquorum, 2017)

* [https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/rolex-ref-6264-daytona-paul-newman-lot-315-6 Rolex Daytona 6264 "Paul Newman", case 2372838 — Antiquorum Monaco] (Antiquorum, 2018)

* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29152/lot/45/rolex-a-fine-and-exceptionally-rare-18k-gold-manual-wind-chronograph-bracelet-watch-with-ghost-showing-of-a-khanjar-dial-cosmograph-daytona-ref-6263-between-the-lugs-6264-inside-case-back-circa-1973/ Cosmograph Daytona 18K gold "Khanjar" dial, Ref 6263/6264 dual-stamped case — Bonhams lot 29152/45] (Bonhams, 2024)

* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30667/lot/74/rolex-a-fine-stainless-steel-manual-wind-chronograph-bracelet-watch-oyster-cosmograph-daytona-ref-6263-between-the-lugs-6264-inside-case-back-circa-1975/ Oyster Cosmograph Daytona, Ref 6263/6264 dual-stamped case — Bonhams lot 30667/74] (Bonhams, 2025)

* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/21920/lot/176/rolex-a-fine-and-rare-stainless-steel-manual-wind-chronograph-bracelet-watch-cosmograph-daytona-ref62626264-serial-no241-circa-1971/ Cosmograph Daytona Ref:6262/6264 dual-stamped case — Bonhams lot 21920/176] (Bonhams, 2014)

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 == Case, bezel, crystal, and crown ==
-The 6264 case is 36mm steel, the standard manual-wind Daytona case across the 6262 / 6263 / 6264 / 6265 group. Yellow gold examples in 14k were made for the North American market and 18k for export; gold cases are scarce across the brief production run, and a gold 6264 with a Paul Newman dial is among the rarest dial-and-case combinations of the manual-wind era.
+The 6264 case is 36mm steel, the standard manual-wind Daytona case across the 6262 / 6263 / 6264 / 6265 group. Yellow gold examples in 14k were made for the North American market and 18k for export; gold cases are scarce across the brief production run, and a gold 6264 with a Paul Newman dial is among the rarest dial-and-case combinations of the manual-wind era. A documented 14K gold example, case No.2802729, made in 1970, sold at Antiquorum New York in September 2014 for USD 81,250 — bi-colour champagne and black dial, applied yellow-gold faceted baton indexes, cal. 727.
 The pump pushers are the watch’s defining feature against the contemporary 6263, which carries the same case and bezel but adds threaded screw-down pusher tubes. Pump pushers are unthreaded, sit slightly proud of the case, and actuate without unscrewing. The trade-off shows up in water resistance: the screw-pusher 6263 is rated to 100m, the 6264 to the lower 50m rating common to the pump-pusher generation. The Twinlock screw-down crown is the same on both. Neither watch was meant for chronograph use underwater; the screw-pusher revision answered accidental actuation more than depth rating.
 The bezel insert is black acrylic, marked with a tachymetric scale to 400 units per hour. The 6262 splits from the 6264 here and only here — engraved metal versus acrylic, with the rest of the case and movement identical. The same acrylic component runs on the 6263 through its full 1969–1988 production, so the 6264 effectively sets the bezel design that the screw-pusher reference then carried for another eighteen years.
+The 6264's case blanks were genuinely dual-stamped with sibling references, which bears directly on the bezel-material dispute above. Two Bonhams lots — an 18K gold "Khanjar" Sultanate of Oman dial example sold in London for £124,860 in June 2024, and a steel example sold for £38,400 in June 2025 — are both catalogued as "Ref: 6263 between the lugs, 6264 inside case back." Both carry screw-down pushers, meaning both are functionally 6263s despite the 6264 caseback stamp. A third lot, catalogued directly as "Ref:6262/6264" and sold in London for £84,100 in 2014, shows the same practice on the pump-pusher side ([[Reference:6262]]). A single case-stamp reading is not sufficient on its own to settle which reference a given watch belongs to across this cluster.
 Crystal is acrylic, a flat-domed Twinlock-compatible plexi consistent with the era and the rest of the manual-wind Daytona group. The crown is a Twinlock screw-down, period-standard for water-resistant Oyster sport watches before Triplock entered the line on the deeper-spec divers.
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 The Paul Newman 6264 is the rarest standard branch of the reference. The exotic dial appears on 6264 cases in both panda and tri-color configurations, but documented examples are thin on the ground; the configuration earns its scarcity premium more from low survival than from any factory-defined limited run. The 6264 Paul Newman sits in the same Mk1 / Mk2 framework that runs across the early-1970s Paul Newman Daytonas, with the early square-marker geometry and cross-haired sub-dials that define the type.
-Retailer-signed examples (Tiffany, Beyer, Cartier, Asprey, Serpico y Laino) are theoretically possible on the 6264 but rare relative to the longer-running 6263 host. Retailer signatures were applied locally rather than at Rolex Switzerland. A clean Tiffany or Beyer signature on a documented 6264 is a notable lot when one surfaces, but the 6264 is not a meaningful market for retailer dials in the way the 6263 is.
+Retailer-signed examples (Tiffany, Beyer, Cartier, Asprey, Serpico y Laino) are rare relative to the longer-running 6263 host, but at least one documented 6264 example exists: a Paul Newman "Linz" sold at Antiquorum Geneva in November 2017 for CHF 275,000, signed for Linz Brothers, the Dallas jewelry firm that Rolex Watch USA sold through from 1945 and that the lot notes describe as the top-selling Rolex dealer in North America by 1950. Antiquorum's catalogue called it "never offered at auction before" and "probably the rarest Paul Newman version with an exclusive retailer-signed dial." Retailer signatures were applied locally rather than at Rolex Switzerland. A clean retailer signature on a documented 6264 is a notable lot when one surfaces, but the 6264 is not a meaningful market for retailer dials in the way the 6263 is.
 <span id="historical-market-and-auction-record"></span>
 == Historical market and auction record ==
-The 6264 has not produced the headline single-lot results that the 6263 has accumulated across Christie’s “Daytona Lesson One” (Geneva, 2013) and Phillips’ “Daytona Ultimatum” (Geneva, 2018). Phillips’ Daytona Ultimatum did include the 6264 within its catalogued field, and the broader Phillips manual-wind round-up at the Geneva Watch Auction XX in November 2024 covered 6264 examples in its fourteen-lot set, but no 6264-specific lot has reached the seven- or eight-figure tier of the named 6263 special branches.
+The 6264 has not produced the headline single-lot results that the 6263 has accumulated across Christie’s “Daytona Lesson One” (Geneva, 2013) and Phillips’ “Daytona Ultimatum” (Geneva, 2018). Phillips’ Daytona Ultimatum did include the 6264 within its catalogued field, and the broader Phillips manual-wind round-up at the Geneva Watch Auction XX in November 2024 covered 6264 examples in its fourteen-lot set, but no 6264-specific lot has reached the seven- or eight-figure tier of the named 6263 special branches. A specific, well-documented 6264 result exists at the high end regardless: the Linz Brothers retailer-signed Paul Newman (Antiquorum Geneva, November 2017) sold for CHF 275,000.
-The market for standard 6264s sits between the single-year 6262 (rarer pump-pusher sibling) and the long-running 6263 (more common successor). The acrylic-bezel-plus-pump-pusher combination is uncommon, and the short production run keeps surfacing examples scarce against the 6263. Sigma-marked dials and Big Red configurations do not appear on 6264 because the reference closed before either dial trait entered production. The check that matters is whether case, dial, hands, and pushers are correct to the 1970–72 window. Screw-down pushers on a 6264 indicate a modification to its original specification.
+The market for standard 6264s sits between the single-year 6262 (rarer pump-pusher sibling) and the long-running 6263 (more common successor). The acrylic-bezel-plus-pump-pusher combination is uncommon, and the short production run keeps surfacing examples scarce against the 6263. Sigma-marked dials and Big Red configurations do not appear on 6264 because the reference closed before either dial trait entered production. The check that matters is whether case, dial, hands, and pushers are correct to the 1970–72 window, including whether the case carries a clean single 6264 stamp or the dual 6262/6264 or 6263/6264 case-stamping documented above — not itself a flaw, but it needs to match the rest of the watch. Screw-down pushers on a 6264 indicate a modification to its original specification.
-The Paul Newman 6264 occupies the high end of the reference’s market. Documented 6264 PN sales sit comfortably into seven figures with provenance and original parts; without provenance they are difficult to authenticate cleanly given how many 6263 PN dials and case parts have circulated through service since the 1970s.
+The Paul Newman 6264 occupies the high end of the reference’s market. The Linz Brothers example above and a second, non-retailer-signed Paul Newman sold at Antiquorum Monaco in July 2018 for EUR 161,000 both sit comfortably into six figures with clean provenance; without provenance, PN examples are difficult to authenticate cleanly given how many 6263 PN dials and case parts have circulated through service since the 1970s. The 2018 Monaco lot's own catalogue notes state the reference "was produced for approximately 2 years in about 2000 pieces" and that its caseback is "often" punched with the neighbouring reference 6241 rather than 6264 — a third documented instance of cross-reference case stamping on this generation, and a figure (roughly 2,000 pieces) offered here as one auction house's working estimate rather than a confirmed factory total.
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 * [https://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/ Vintage Watch Straps — Rolex bracelet and clasp reference] — David Boettcher, vintagewatchstraps.com
 * ''The Vintage Rolex Field Manual'' — Colin A. White, Morning Tundra
+* [https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/rolex-ref-6264-lot-285-89 Rolex ref 6264 14K yellow gold, case 2802729 — Antiquorum New York] (Antiquorum, 2014)
+* [https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/rolex-ref-6264-daytona-paul-newman-lot-310-235 Rolex Daytona ref 6264 "Paul Newman" Linz Brothers retailer-signed — Antiquorum Geneva] (Antiquorum, 2017)
+* [https://catalog.antiquorum.swiss/en/lots/rolex-ref-6264-daytona-paul-newman-lot-315-6 Rolex Daytona 6264 "Paul Newman", case 2372838 — Antiquorum Monaco] (Antiquorum, 2018)
+* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29152/lot/45/rolex-a-fine-and-exceptionally-rare-18k-gold-manual-wind-chronograph-bracelet-watch-with-ghost-showing-of-a-khanjar-dial-cosmograph-daytona-ref-6263-between-the-lugs-6264-inside-case-back-circa-1973/ Cosmograph Daytona 18K gold "Khanjar" dial, Ref 6263/6264 dual-stamped case — Bonhams lot 29152/45] (Bonhams, 2024)
+* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30667/lot/74/rolex-a-fine-stainless-steel-manual-wind-chronograph-bracelet-watch-oyster-cosmograph-daytona-ref-6263-between-the-lugs-6264-inside-case-back-circa-1975/ Oyster Cosmograph Daytona, Ref 6263/6264 dual-stamped case — Bonhams lot 30667/74] (Bonhams, 2025)
+* [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/21920/lot/176/rolex-a-fine-and-rare-stainless-steel-manual-wind-chronograph-bracelet-watch-cosmograph-daytona-ref62626264-serial-no241-circa-1971/ Cosmograph Daytona Ref:6262/6264 dual-stamped case — Bonhams lot 21920/176] (Bonhams, 2014)
 [[Category:Daytona Manual-Wind]]
 [[Category:Daytona]]