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[[File:Ref 6534 dial-detail.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date ref. 6534 dial detail, dart-shaped hour markers|Standard silvered dial, dart-shaped luminous hour markers]] | |||
The standard dial, seen on the majority of documented examples, is silvered with applied dart-shaped luminous hour markers, a black outer minute or fifths-of-a-second track, and "ROLEX / OYSTER PERPETUAL / DATE" printed above "OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED CHRONOMETER." Two of the four Bonhams lots describe the date aperture at 3 as "magnified" — collector shorthand for a cyclops lens — though the lens is subtle enough in catalogue photography that it is not obviously present on every example, and a third lot's description omits the word entirely without indicating a genuinely flat-crystal variant. Hand shapes vary across the small documented sample: lance, leaf, and sword hands all appear, without an established chronological pattern tying a given shape to a particular production year. | The standard dial, seen on the majority of documented examples, is silvered with applied dart-shaped luminous hour markers, a black outer minute or fifths-of-a-second track, and "ROLEX / OYSTER PERPETUAL / DATE" printed above "OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED CHRONOMETER." Two of the four Bonhams lots describe the date aperture at 3 as "magnified" — collector shorthand for a cyclops lens — though the lens is subtle enough in catalogue photography that it is not obviously present on every example, and a third lot's description omits the word entirely without indicating a genuinely flat-crystal variant. Hand shapes vary across the small documented sample: lance, leaf, and sword hands all appear, without an established chronological pattern tying a given shape to a particular production year. | ||
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The record spans three currencies and three continents' worth of sale rooms, with hammer and estimate figures from GBP 800 to an EUR 4,500 upper estimate. That spread is too thin and too mixed in currency and condition to support a firm pricing trend — the 2025 Milan estimate sits well above the 2019–2022 Bonhams results, but a single online-auction estimate is a data point, not a market direction. | The record spans three currencies and three continents' worth of sale rooms, with hammer and estimate figures from GBP 800 to an EUR 4,500 upper estimate. That spread is too thin and too mixed in currency and condition to support a firm pricing trend — the 2025 Milan estimate sits well above the 2019–2022 Bonhams results, but a single online-auction estimate is a data point, not a market direction. | ||
[[File:Ref 6534 wrist-angle.webp|thumb|right|250px|alt=Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date ref. 6534, angled wrist shot, brown leather strap|A later example on a brown leather strap, gold-toned hour markers]] | |||
== Related references == | == Related references == | ||