MK Personal Collection Ultra Rare Rolex Daytona Cartier Paul Newman Wristwatch Ref 6239 Circa 1966

MK Personal Collection The present lot is part of a larger privately held collection and is intended for exhibition purposes only. Ultra Rare Rolex Daytona Cartier Paul Newman Wristwatch Ref 6239 Circa 1966. This very fine men's steel Rolex Cosmograph "Daytona" with a three-body construction case and screwed-down dedicated case, Serial # 1,781,XXX., has an original bi-colored silver and black Paul Newman dial with applied steel bâton indexes, luminous dots outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. It is signed "Cartier Serial # 20461972". The watch has luminous steel "bâton" hands Cal. 72B 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 mint condition. The iconic ‘Daytona’ was introduced in the United States in 1963, and available in the US and Europe until 1969. The reference was the first to have the ‘Cosmograph’ dial designation and was produced with several dial configurations. Some with or without ‘Daytona’ print, whilst others were offered with an ‘exotic’ dial, manufactured by Singer and with either a 2-colored dial in white or black or a 3-colored dial in white or black with red accents. This exotic dial later became known as 'Paul Newman' dial, after the actor. It is characterized by its square markers in the chronograph scale and subsidiary dials, as well as the alternating patterning of the coloration. At the time, these exotic dialed variants proved unpopular, and so they were sold in significantly fewer numbers than those with non-exotic dials.