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= Paul Newman Daytona = | = Paul Newman Daytona = | ||
The Paul Newman Daytona is the best-known exotic dial in vintage Rolex. | The Paul Newman Daytona is the best-known exotic dial in vintage Rolex. The name describes a dial — a Singer-made Cosmograph layout with block markers, sub-dial cross-hairs, and 15/30/45 numerals instead of the standard 20/40/60 — fitted to six manual-wind Daytona references between 1963 and 1988. The dial was unpopular when new and sat on dealers' shelves for years. A half-century later Paul Newman's own watches fixed the type at the top of the vintage Rolex market. | ||
This page | This page covers the dial across all six host references. The host references each have their own article, linked in the table below. | ||
[[File:Paul Newman wearing 6239.webp|thumb|right|340px|alt=Paul Newman wearing his 6239 Cosmograph Daytona|Paul Newman wearing his 6239 Cosmograph Daytona]] | [[File:Paul Newman wearing 6239.webp|thumb|right|340px|alt=Paul Newman wearing his 6239 Cosmograph Daytona|Paul Newman wearing his 6239 Cosmograph Daytona]] | ||
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== Mark 1 through Mark 4 progression == | == Mark 1 through Mark 4 progression == | ||
Rolex never documented a Paul Newman Mk | Rolex never documented a Paul Newman Mk progression. The typology is collector consensus, first formalised by Italian dealer Stefano Mazzariol in the 1990s and later carried into English-language editorial by Ross Povey at Revolution, Benjamin Clymer and Paul Boutros at Hodinkee, and the Phillips catalogue text across Daytona Ultimatum (2018) and James Marks's Made for Racing essay. The four-mark scaffold below is the commonly-cited progression; transition dates between marks are approximate and overlap heavily across host references. | ||
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MK1.5, MK1.75 | Sub-mark labels (MK1.5, MK1.75 and finer) surface in the deeper collector literature; Jose Pereztroika of Perezcope works at MK1.75 granularity in his forensic analysis of the Phillips "Neanderthal" 6240. The four-mark scaffold above remains the consensus framing in most auction catalogues and editorial treatments. | ||
== The five colour types == | == The five colour types == | ||
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== Authentication == | == Authentication == | ||
Paul Newman authentication is the densest forensic category in vintage Rolex. The canonical English-language treatments are the Phillips Made for Racing essay by James Marks (2018) and the Hodinkee Reference Points piece by Benjamin Clymer (2013) | Paul Newman authentication is the densest forensic category in vintage Rolex. The canonical English-language treatments are the Phillips Made for Racing essay by James Marks (2018) and the Hodinkee Reference Points piece by Benjamin Clymer (2013). Jose Pereztroika's Perezcope dossiers on the Neanderthal 6240, the Albino 6263, and the Unicorn 6265 cover disputed authenticity cases in adjacent categories, and the failure modes they document apply to Paul Newman authentication as well. | ||
Authentication starts | Authentication starts at the dial back and the print. The Singer stamp style has to match the mark period it claims, the sub-dial crosshairs and 15/30/45 numerals have to be original printing rather than later additions, and the case serial range has to line up with the dial generation. The catch is that service-replacement Paul Newman dials exist as factory product, so a correct service dial reads identically to an original-delivery dial under the loupe; provenance documentation does the rest of the work. | ||
== Disputed examples == | == Disputed examples == | ||
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The "Albino" 6263 has three known examples. Hodinkee's 2013 coverage treated the variant as factory Rolex; Perezcope's December 2025 dossier argues it is a Tom Bolt construction of 1990s origin. Sotheby's Abu Dhabi sold a third Albino in December 2025 with "origins unknown" catalogue language. See [[Reference:6263]]. | The "Albino" 6263 has three known examples. Hodinkee's 2013 coverage treated the variant as factory Rolex; Perezcope's December 2025 dossier argues it is a Tom Bolt construction of 1990s origin. Sotheby's Abu Dhabi sold a third Albino in December 2025 with "origins unknown" catalogue language. See [[Reference:6263]]. | ||
Lemon dial attribution on gold Paul Newmans is the third open question. Bob Ridley's 2017 Revolution bench dissection records that gold-case Paul Newman Daytonas (6263 / 6265) are always the Lemon variant, | Lemon dial attribution on gold Paul Newmans is the third open question. Bob Ridley's 2017 Revolution bench dissection records that gold-case Paul Newman Daytonas (6263 / 6265) are always the Lemon variant, while some auction catalogues continue to list gold-case PNs under other colour-type labels. Whether "Lemon" is Rolex's own factory designation or a collector-settled retroactive label has not been resolved in the published literature. | ||
== Source list == | == Source list == | ||