MK Personal Collection Rare Steel Rolex Anti-Magnetic "Pre-Daytona" Oyster Chronograph Wristwatch Ref 6234, Circa 1958

MK Personal Collection The present lot is part of a larger privately held collection and is intended for exhibition purposes only. Rare Steel Rolex Anti-Magnetic “Pre-Daytona“ Oyster, Chronograph Ref. 6234, Circa 1958. This is a fine men's steel Rolex Cosmograph Pre "Daytona" with three-body construction case and screwed-down case back. Serial # 425,821. Refinished Silver painted dial with applied steel bâton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale, luminous steel bâton hands, Cal. 72 Rolex Chronograph movement with a rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, The watch is in overall good condition. It just needs a good polish. An example from the “Pre-Daytona” era, the ref. 6234 was introduced to the public in 1955. Encased in a 36mm Oyster case, the reference features a smooth polished bezel with the telemeter scale printed inside. Offered in various iterations, the common configuration featured a scale printed only in blue with rarer variations featuring a multi-colored scale printed in both red and blue. Considered rare, the reference was only produced for a short period of time with its production seized in 1961 replaced by the new ref. 6238, which would become the last “Pre-Daytona” model