Reference:6694: Difference between revisions

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==Movement notes==

[[File:Ref 6694 movement.webp|thumb|right|300px|alt=Manual-wind Rolex caliber 1225 in a 6694 case with the screw-down caseback removed and set beside it|Caliber 1225 in case 828496, with the screw-down back lifted off. No rotor, no automatic winding bridge, and a back that is flat because nothing needs clearance under it.]]

Three calibers are documented on 6694 lots, all manual-wind, all 17 jewels, all from the Rolex 1200 family. Caliber 1220 is never named on a 6694 at any of the six houses searched.

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===The automatic attributions===

[[File:Ref 6694 black dial.webp~~|thumb|right|280px~~|alt=Black-dial Rolex Oysterdate 6694 on a steel Oyster bracelet|Case 2943776, sold with its dated guarantee and swing tag. The lot title calls it automatic; the movement field on the same page reads 17-jewel manual wind.]]

File:Ref 6694 movement.webp|alt=Manual-wind Rolex caliber 1225 in a 6694 case with the screw-down caseback removed and set beside it|Caliber 1225 in case 828496, with the screw-down back lifted off. No rotor, no automatic winding bridge, and a back that is flat because nothing needs clearance under it.

[[File:Ref 6694 caseback.webp~~|thumb|right|300px~~|alt=Flat screw-down caseback of a Rolex 6694 on its Oyster bracelet and folding clasp|The back of case 2 083 433. A rotor needs a domed caseback to turn under; every 6694 back in the auction record is flat.]]

File:Ref 6694 black dial.webp|alt=Black-dial Rolex Oysterdate 6694 on a steel Oyster bracelet|Case 2943776, sold with its dated guarantee and swing tag. The lot title calls it automatic; the movement field on the same page reads 17-jewel manual wind.

File:Ref 6694 caseback.webp|alt=Flat screw-down caseback of a Rolex 6694 on its Oyster bracelet and folding clasp|The back of case 2 083 433. A rotor needs a domed caseback to turn under; every 6694 back in the auction record is flat.

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Four of the six houses have catalogued a 6694 as automatic or self-winding. Every instance contradicts itself inside its own entry, and the pattern is the same everywhere: the error sits in the title or the prose sentence, never in the movement specification.

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 ==Movement notes==
-[[File:Ref 6694 movement.webp|thumb|right|300px|alt=Manual-wind Rolex caliber 1225 in a 6694 case with the screw-down caseback removed and set beside it|Caliber 1225 in case 828496, with the screw-down back lifted off. No rotor, no automatic winding bridge, and a back that is flat because nothing needs clearance under it.]]
 Three calibers are documented on 6694 lots, all manual-wind, all 17 jewels, all from the Rolex 1200 family. Caliber 1220 is never named on a 6694 at any of the six houses searched.
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 ===The automatic attributions===
-[[File:Ref 6694 black dial.webp|thumb|right|280px|alt=Black-dial Rolex Oysterdate 6694 on a steel Oyster bracelet|Case 2943776, sold with its dated guarantee and swing tag. The lot title calls it automatic; the movement field on the same page reads 17-jewel manual wind.]]
+<gallery mode="packed" heights="180">
+File:Ref 6694 movement.webp|alt=Manual-wind Rolex caliber 1225 in a 6694 case with the screw-down caseback removed and set beside it|Caliber 1225 in case 828496, with the screw-down back lifted off. No rotor, no automatic winding bridge, and a back that is flat because nothing needs clearance under it.
-[[File:Ref 6694 caseback.webp|thumb|right|300px|alt=Flat screw-down caseback of a Rolex 6694 on its Oyster bracelet and folding clasp|The back of case 2 083 433. A rotor needs a domed caseback to turn under; every 6694 back in the auction record is flat.]]
+File:Ref 6694 black dial.webp|alt=Black-dial Rolex Oysterdate 6694 on a steel Oyster bracelet|Case 2943776, sold with its dated guarantee and swing tag. The lot title calls it automatic; the movement field on the same page reads 17-jewel manual wind.
+File:Ref 6694 caseback.webp|alt=Flat screw-down caseback of a Rolex 6694 on its Oyster bracelet and folding clasp|The back of case 2 083 433. A rotor needs a domed caseback to turn under; every 6694 back in the auction record is flat.
+</gallery>
 Four of the six houses have catalogued a 6694 as automatic or self-winding. Every instance contradicts itself inside its own entry, and the pattern is the same everywhere: the error sits in the title or the prose sentence, never in the movement specification.