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The Oman commissions reached Rolex through Asprey London, which held its own Khanjar cliché and stamped many of the dials in-house from "clean" dials supplied by Rolex without the chronometer text. Asprey-stamped 6265 examples typically carry an "Asprey" engraving on the caseback alongside the Khanjar dial — Antiquorum has catalogued the configuration as "Rolex for Asprey, ref. 6265, black dial with 'Oman' or 'Khanjar Crest' emblem." Jose Pereztroika's May 2025 forensic post on a faked red Khanjar 6265 dial documents the most current authentication problem on this branch: an Asprey-cased 6265 that originally left the factory with a "Sigma" black dial later resurfaced with a freshly applied red Khanjar dial of poor printing quality. Treat any red Khanjar 6265 without continuous photographic provenance from a major auction with caution; the case-and-engraving combination is easier to assemble than a period-correct dial.

=== Libyan Army and Gaddafi-signature 6265 ===

A separate institutional branch carries Libyan dial markings — distinct from the Asprey/Oman commissions and reaching Rolex through a different channel after Muammar Gaddafi's 1969 coup. The most documented example is a 6265 with a Gaddafi-signature dial sold at Antiquorum's Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces sale (Geneva, Mandarin Oriental, 12 May 2013) for CHF 128,500 hammer; Norma Buchanan's WatchTime coverage of that sale records the result and the Libyan-state provenance. Plain Libyan Army crest dials (without the signature) appear on a handful of additional 6265s and on later Datejust references such as the 16250 — Antiquorum catalogued a 1979 16250 with a Libyan Army logo dial in its June 2008 Hong Kong sale. A red monochromatic Libyan Air Force crest is rarer still. Gaddafi himself was never photographed wearing the signed Daytona, and the prevailing reading is that the watch left state hands as a gift rather than being worn by the head of state. The Libyan branch should not be conflated with the Asprey/Oman Khanjar branch above: different commissioning state, different retailer chain, different dial layout, and — for the signature variant — a one-off rather than a small numbered run.

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 The Oman commissions reached Rolex through Asprey London, which held its own Khanjar cliché and stamped many of the dials in-house from "clean" dials supplied by Rolex without the chronometer text. Asprey-stamped 6265 examples typically carry an "Asprey" engraving on the caseback alongside the Khanjar dial — Antiquorum has catalogued the configuration as "Rolex for Asprey, ref. 6265, black dial with 'Oman' or 'Khanjar Crest' emblem." Jose Pereztroika's May 2025 forensic post on a faked red Khanjar 6265 dial documents the most current authentication problem on this branch: an Asprey-cased 6265 that originally left the factory with a "Sigma" black dial later resurfaced with a freshly applied red Khanjar dial of poor printing quality. Treat any red Khanjar 6265 without continuous photographic provenance from a major auction with caution; the case-and-engraving combination is easier to assemble than a period-correct dial.
+=== Libyan Army and Gaddafi-signature 6265 ===
+A separate institutional branch carries Libyan dial markings — distinct from the Asprey/Oman commissions and reaching Rolex through a different channel after Muammar Gaddafi's 1969 coup. The most documented example is a 6265 with a Gaddafi-signature dial sold at Antiquorum's Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces sale (Geneva, Mandarin Oriental, 12 May 2013) for CHF 128,500 hammer; Norma Buchanan's WatchTime coverage of that sale records the result and the Libyan-state provenance. Plain Libyan Army crest dials (without the signature) appear on a handful of additional 6265s and on later Datejust references such as the 16250 — Antiquorum catalogued a 1979 16250 with a Libyan Army logo dial in its June 2008 Hong Kong sale. A red monochromatic Libyan Air Force crest is rarer still. Gaddafi himself was never photographed wearing the signed Daytona, and the prevailing reading is that the watch left state hands as a gift rather than being worn by the head of state. The Libyan branch should not be conflated with the Asprey/Oman Khanjar branch above: different commissioning state, different retailer chain, different dial layout, and — for the signature variant — a one-off rather than a small numbered run.