Lot 268 · Important Watches: Part II
Daytona ‘Big Red’, Reference 6265 | A stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with bracelet | Circa 1973
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- Estimate
- CHF 40,000–CHF 60,000 hammer ≈ $45,401–$68,101
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Watches: Part II, Geneva · 12 November 2024
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5250205
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Rolex, Daytona ‘Big Red’, Reference 6265 | A stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with bracelet | Circa 1973. Sotheby's, 12 Nov 2024, lot 268. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5250205.
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Rolex, Daytona ‘Big Red’, Reference 6265 | A stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with bracelet | Circa 1973. Sotheby's, 12 Nov 2024, lot 268. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5250205.
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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.