MK Personal Collection David Kravit Rolex Sunburst Tropical Sub Dials Rolex "Cosmograph Small Daytona" Oyster Wristwatch Circa 1968

MK Personal Collection David Kravit The present lot is part of a larger privately held collection and is intended for exhibition purposes only. Rolex Sunburst Tropical Sub Dials Rolex "Cosmograph Small Daytona" Oyster Wristwatch Ref 6239 Circa 1968. This very fine men's steel Rolex Cosmograph Daytona with a three-body construction case and screwed-down dedicated case (Serial # 1,417.836). The watch has an original bi-colored silver and choclate brown registered dial with applied steel bâton indexes, luminous dots outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, luminous steel "bâton" hands Cal. 72B Rolex Chronograph movement with a rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber and a self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Bearing a 1.4 million serial number, the present watch is an early example of reference 6239 featuring a small Daytona signature and the correct steel bezel calibrated to 300 units. During the beginning of the Daytona’s production, Rolex experimented with various dial configurations in order to realize its design for the Cosmograph Daytona. It was a few years later that Rolex definitively printed the "Daytona" designation above the subsidiary register positioned at 6 o'clock, the dial carries the T SWISS T signature at the bottom of the dial to confirm the use of tritium on the dial. The present example is a stainless steel reference 6239 fitted with a Mint silvered dial featuring coffee brown “tropical” subsidiary dials. Presented in excellent overall condition with crisp case edges and lugs further charmed by the excellent condition of the bracelet, this present piece is highly desirable for lovers of vintage chronograph wristwatches. With the reference alone already one of the rarest, this well preserved example of a reference 6239 with very attractive “tropical” subsidiary dials and Small Daytona combination has never shown up in any auction and at this point it's considered Unique.