Reference:paul-newman-daytona: Difference between revisions
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JPS denotes a Paul Newman dial on a yellow gold case where the dial is black and the sub-dial surrounds and hour markers are gold-toned, echoing the black-and-gold livery of the John Player Special-sponsored Lotus Formula 1 team of the 1970s. Mario Andretti took the 1978 Drivers' Championship in a Lotus 79 in those colours. The JPS nickname is a collector invention applied retroactively; Rolex never used it. | JPS denotes a Paul Newman dial on a yellow gold case where the dial is black and the sub-dial surrounds and hour markers are gold-toned, echoing the black-and-gold livery of the John Player Special-sponsored Lotus Formula 1 team of the 1970s. Mario Andretti took the 1978 Drivers' Championship in a Lotus 79 in those colours. The JPS nickname is a collector invention applied retroactively; Rolex never used it. | ||
The | The cited literature most often identifies the 14k yellow-gold 6241 as the JPS host. The cited sources do not establish a factory production total for the gold 6241 JPS configuration. The same look also appears on some gold 6263s, though those are more often described under the Lemon branch. | ||
== Six host references == | == Six host references == | ||