Christies to sell Controversial Black ROC Daytona (Hodinkee)

rockmastermike · Post by **rockmastermike** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:13 pm

Ghost dials, reprints, mistakes, pushers, oh my

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/rolex-dayt ... paulnewman

marchone · Post by **marchone** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:33 pm

Cool story. The cynic in me has long thought the reason Rolex doesn't provide information on vintage pieces makes me think they kept sloppy or incomplete records in the past. Especially as they had many outside suppliers they no longer do.

It's no small feat it also helps perpetuate the legend.

demer03 · Post by **demer03** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:24 pm

Dom Wieland has told me I would be surprised by the variances that left the factory in the old days. This is gorgeous, by the way.

Post by **Pasquale** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:39 am

I can stare at it all day, not noticing the time once.

unixshrk · Post by **unixshrk** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:43 am

patstarrx wrote:I can stare at it all day, not noticing the time once.

Just make sure you aren't driving while staring at it

JP Chestnut · Post by **JP Chestnut** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:51 am

marchone wrote:Cool story. The cynic in me has long thought the reason Rolex doesn't provide information on vintage pieces makes me think they kept sloppy or incomplete records in the past. Especially as they had many outside suppliers they no longer do.

It's no small feat it also helps perpetuate the legend.

I agree. They it seems they definitely had a "buy in bulk, and use until it's gone" mentality back then. They clearly didn't care about minute font differences and things like that.

Dedalus · Post by **Dedalus** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:41 pm

The watch is hot regardless of authenticity. Fantastic discussion/debate about this over on VRF.
Those guys are insanely conversant with even the most obscure of idiosyncrasies when it comes to vintage Rolex.

dukerules · Post by **dukerules** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:18 pm

Vintage Rolex is crazy, and objectively much of it is pretty dumb IMO.

bzabodyn · Post by **bzabodyn** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:14 am

Yes, I have been both highly intrigued and also completely turned off by the whole vintage Rolex spectacle.

A birth year 6263 black dial, however, is my be-all, end-all watch. Please don't ever let me hit the lotto.

BZ

cdnwatchguy · Post by **cdnwatchguy** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:20 am

dukerules wrote:Vintage Rolex is crazy, and objectively much of it is pretty dumb IMO.

I am with you, even though I am a Rolex guy.

And IMHO this one looks like ass.

JBZ · Post by **JBZ** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:54 am

dukerules wrote:Vintage Rolex is crazy, and objectively much of it is pretty dumb IMO.

And because of this, you have to be really careful about what you buy. It would suck, for example, to buy a serif dial 5513 only to find out later that Rolex didn't release serif dials during the year of your watch. All of these minute details is where the value lies.

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