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Twice, the most expensive Rolex ever sold at auction has been the same "Bao Dai" watch. Bao Dai, the last Emperor of Vietnam, visited Rolex in Geneva during 1954 peace talks and reportedly asked to see the company's most expensive watch; Rolex produced this black-dial 6062 with baguette-diamond indices. Consigned by a young Aurel Bacs to Phillips de Pury in 2002, it sold for CHF 370,000 against a CHF 200,000 reserve, then reappeared at Phillips Geneva in May 2017 and sold for CHF 5,066,000, reclaiming the title until that year's record-breaking "Paul Newman" Daytona took it a few months later.

In October 2025, a second black-diamond-dial 6062 broke the reference's own record. This one — case number 942,536, six diamonds set at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 rather than the Bao Dai's five — sold at Monaco Legend Group's Exclusive Timepieces auction in Monte Carlo for USD 6.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a 6062 and, per Forbes, the third-highest price ever paid for any Rolex at auction. It is one of only three known black-diamond-dial 6062s and had previously sold at Antiquorum in 2006, as part of The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wristwatches, for USD 391,000 — a fifteen-fold increase in under two decades. Hodinkee's pre-sale preview independently flagged the same lot ahead of the auction, describing it as "the Holy Grail of Rolex" and noting it is one of two known 6062s in this specific diamond layout.

In October 2025, a second black-diamond-dial 6062 broke the reference's own record. This one, case number 942,536, carries six diamonds set at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 rather than the Bao Dai's five. It sold at Monaco Legend Group's Exclusive Timepieces auction in Monte Carlo for USD 6.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a 6062 and, per Forbes, the third-highest price ever paid for any Rolex at auction. It is one of only three known black-diamond-dial 6062s and had previously sold at Antiquorum in 2006, as part of The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wristwatches, for USD 391,000, a fifteen-fold increase in under two decades. Hodinkee's pre-sale preview independently flagged the same lot ahead of the auction, describing it as "the Holy Grail of Rolex" and noting it is one of two known 6062s in this specific diamond layout.

Below the headline results, condition and dial originality move 6062 prices more than any particular configuration. Christie's watch-department head Remi Guillemin, quoted in Hodinkee's survey of more than 100 documented 6062 sales, put it directly: "It's about condition more than any specific configuration." Refinished or service-dial examples have sold for a small fraction of original-dial results in comparable case condition — figures as low as USD 64,000–257,000 against seven-figure results for original dials from the same auction seasons.

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 Twice, the most expensive Rolex ever sold at auction has been the same "Bao Dai" watch. Bao Dai, the last Emperor of Vietnam, visited Rolex in Geneva during 1954 peace talks and reportedly asked to see the company's most expensive watch; Rolex produced this black-dial 6062 with baguette-diamond indices. Consigned by a young Aurel Bacs to Phillips de Pury in 2002, it sold for CHF 370,000 against a CHF 200,000 reserve, then reappeared at Phillips Geneva in May 2017 and sold for CHF 5,066,000, reclaiming the title until that year's record-breaking "Paul Newman" Daytona took it a few months later.
-In October 2025, a second black-diamond-dial 6062 broke the reference's own record. This one — case number 942,536, six diamonds set at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 rather than the Bao Dai's five — sold at Monaco Legend Group's Exclusive Timepieces auction in Monte Carlo for USD 6.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a 6062 and, per Forbes, the third-highest price ever paid for any Rolex at auction. It is one of only three known black-diamond-dial 6062s and had previously sold at Antiquorum in 2006, as part of The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wristwatches, for USD 391,000 — a fifteen-fold increase in under two decades. Hodinkee's pre-sale preview independently flagged the same lot ahead of the auction, describing it as "the Holy Grail of Rolex" and noting it is one of two known 6062s in this specific diamond layout.
+In October 2025, a second black-diamond-dial 6062 broke the reference's own record. This one, case number 942,536, carries six diamonds set at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 rather than the Bao Dai's five. It sold at Monaco Legend Group's Exclusive Timepieces auction in Monte Carlo for USD 6.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a 6062 and, per Forbes, the third-highest price ever paid for any Rolex at auction. It is one of only three known black-diamond-dial 6062s and had previously sold at Antiquorum in 2006, as part of The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wristwatches, for USD 391,000, a fifteen-fold increase in under two decades. Hodinkee's pre-sale preview independently flagged the same lot ahead of the auction, describing it as "the Holy Grail of Rolex" and noting it is one of two known 6062s in this specific diamond layout.
 Below the headline results, condition and dial originality move 6062 prices more than any particular configuration. Christie's watch-department head Remi Guillemin, quoted in Hodinkee's survey of more than 100 documented 6062 sales, put it directly: "It's about condition more than any specific configuration." Refinished or service-dial examples have sold for a small fraction of original-dial results in comparable case condition — figures as low as USD 64,000–257,000 against seven-figure results for original dials from the same auction seasons.