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The 6074 is the platinum Ovettone. Rolex built it in 1950, on the same 36mm Big Bubbleback case as the yellow-gold [[Reference:6075|6075]] that ran alongside it, and built it twice. John Goldberger catalogues the reference in ''100 Superlative Rolex Watches'' (Damiani, 2013) as a platinum self-winding wristwatch with calendar made in only two examples, one of which he reports as unaccounted for. That leaves a single known watch: black honeycomb dial, white-gold hands, platinum Jubilee bracelet, and a caseback engraved with a line Rolex wrote for no other Oyster. | The 6074 is the platinum Ovettone. Rolex built it in 1950, on the same 36mm Big Bubbleback case as the yellow-gold [[Reference:6075|6075]] that ran alongside it, and built it twice. John Goldberger catalogues the reference in ''100 Superlative Rolex Watches'' (Damiani, 2013) as a platinum self-winding wristwatch with calendar made in only two examples, one of which he reports as unaccounted for. That leaves a single known watch: black honeycomb dial, white-gold hands, platinum Jubilee bracelet, and a caseback engraved with a line Rolex wrote for no other Oyster. | ||
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