Reference:6238: Difference between revisions
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[[File:Ref 6238 hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Rolex Pre-Daytona Ref. 6238|Rolex Pre-Daytona Ref. 6238]] | [[File:Ref 6238 hero.webp|thumb|center|640px|alt=Rolex Pre-Daytona Ref. 6238, black dial, with its 1971 guarantee certificate|Rolex Pre-Daytona Ref. 6238, black dial, with its 1971 guarantee certificate]] | ||
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== Historical market and auction record == | == Historical market and auction record == | ||
[[File:Ref 6238 square.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Rolex Pre-Daytona Ref. 6238 with the standard silver dial|Rolex Pre-Daytona Ref. 6238 with the standard silver dial]] | |||
The 6238’s market sits below the headline Paul Newman 6239 numbers and well below the Newman-owned Paul Newman 6263 prices, but the published market is mature and prices have tracked upward steadily through the 2010s and 2020s. Bacs is on record in A Collected Man asserting that “in every category of the 6238, Phillips holds the world record for price achieved at auction.” Phillips’s lot-by-lot results are the working ceiling for each variant. | The 6238’s market sits below the headline Paul Newman 6239 numbers and well below the Newman-owned Paul Newman 6263 prices, but the published market is mature and prices have tracked upward steadily through the 2010s and 2020s. Bacs is on record in A Collected Man asserting that “in every category of the 6238, Phillips holds the world record for price achieved at auction.” Phillips’s lot-by-lot results are the working ceiling for each variant. | ||