Lot 278 · Important Watches: Part II
GMT-Master, Reference 6542 | A stainless steel dual time zone wristwatch with date | Circa 1958.
Rolex · gmt-master, reference 6542 | a stainless steel dual time zone wristwatch with date | circa 1958
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- Estimate
- CHF 40,000–CHF 60,000 hammer ≈ $44,405–$66,607
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Watches: Part II, Geneva · 7 November 2023
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5166589
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Rolex, GMT-Master, Reference 6542 | A stainless steel dual time zone wristwatch with date | Circa 1958. Sotheby's, 7 Nov 2023, lot 278. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5166589.
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Rolex, GMT-Master, Reference 6542 | A stainless steel dual time zone wristwatch with date | Circa 1958. Sotheby's, 7 Nov 2023, lot 278. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5166589.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolex | Untitled | $42,269 | Phillips, May 2024 | |
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| Rolex | ROLEX, Cosmograph Daytona 6239: wristwatch | Bertolami Fine Art, Dec 2025 | ||
| Rolex | Orologio, Daytona | Finarte, Jun 2020 | ||
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.