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Ubiquity has a cost. The 6694 is the most frequently mis-catalogued vintage Rolex in the mid-market. Four of the six major auction houses have described 6694 lots as automatic, and every one of those attributions contradicts its own movement field; no lot at any house names an automatic Rolex caliber. The reference has also acquired a distinction it cannot support — that it was the last manual-wind Rolex ever made — which Rolex's own product pages refute. Both errors are common enough that a buyer will meet them before meeting a clean example, so both are addressed below rather than left implied. | Ubiquity has a cost. The 6694 is the most frequently mis-catalogued vintage Rolex in the mid-market. Four of the six major auction houses have described 6694 lots as automatic, and every one of those attributions contradicts its own movement field; no lot at any house names an automatic Rolex caliber. The reference has also acquired a distinction it cannot support — that it was the last manual-wind Rolex ever made — which Rolex's own product pages refute. Both errors are common enough that a buyer will meet them before meeting a clean example, so both are addressed below rather than left implied. | ||
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==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown== | ==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown== | ||
[[File:Ref 6694 hero.webp|thumb|right|340px|alt=Rolex Oysterdate Precision reference 6694 in stainless steel with a silvered baton dial on a riveted Oyster bracelet|The default configuration: 34 mm steel Oyster, silvered dial with polished baton markers, date at three under a cyclops. Case 1840635, caliber 1225, inside back coded II.68, on a riveted 7205 bracelet.]] | |||
The case is a three-piece Oyster, tonneau in profile, with a screw-down back and a screw-down crown. The crown is a single-seal design rather than a two-seal Twinlock, a detail that matters in service — an oversized replacement O-ring is a common reason a 6694 crown will not seat fully. The crystal is acrylic with a moulded cyclops. The bezel is smooth and polished on steel examples, and engine-turned or fluted on the gold-cased variants. | The case is a three-piece Oyster, tonneau in profile, with a screw-down back and a screw-down crown. The crown is a single-seal design rather than a two-seal Twinlock, a detail that matters in service — an oversized replacement O-ring is a common reason a 6694 crown will not seat fully. The crystal is acrylic with a moulded cyclops. The bezel is smooth and polished on steel examples, and engine-turned or fluted on the gold-cased variants. | ||