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The Albino is a white-on-white monochromatic Paul Newman-adjacent dial fitted to the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona [[Reference:6263|reference 6263]]. Silver sub-dials on a white dial base, bearing only "Rolex Oyster Cosmograph" at 12 o'clock without the standard "Daytona" signature above the 6 o'clock sub-register. Three examples are documented to date. The most famous is Eric Clapton's, which has traded four times across twenty-two years — from Christie's New York in 2003 at USD 50,190 to Sotheby's Abu Dhabi in 2025 at USD 952,500. The Albino sits at the centre of the most disputed authenticity debate in the manual-wind Daytona literature: three publicly-stated positions on whether the variant is as-issued Rolex or a late-1990s Tom Bolt construction, each from a high-credibility source, each on the public record, each unresolved. | The Albino is a white-on-white monochromatic Paul Newman-adjacent dial fitted to the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona [[Reference:6263|reference 6263]]. Silver sub-dials on a white dial base, bearing only "Rolex Oyster Cosmograph" at 12 o'clock without the standard "Daytona" signature above the 6 o'clock sub-register. Three examples are documented to date. The most famous is Eric Clapton's, which has traded four times across twenty-two years — from Christie's New York in 2003 at USD 50,190 to Sotheby's Abu Dhabi in 2025 at USD 952,500. The Albino sits at the centre of the most disputed authenticity debate in the manual-wind Daytona literature: three publicly-stated positions on whether the variant is as-issued Rolex or a late-1990s Tom Bolt construction, each from a high-credibility source, each on the public record, each unresolved. | ||
[[File:Ref 6263 | [[File:Ref 6263 albino-hero.webp|thumb|right|320px|Albino Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 6263, case 2648447, Sotheby's Abu Dhabi Lot 340, sold USD 952,500 on 5 December 2025 (Perezcope)]] | ||
== What the Albino is == | == What the Albino is == | ||