Rolex

• cal. 72B manual winding nickel lever movement, 17 jewels • silvered brushed dial, applied baton numerals with luminescent accents, luminescent hands, outer tachometer scale, three engine-turned subsidiary dials for constant seconds, 30-minutes and 12-hours registers • tonneau-shaped case, screw-down back, screw down • case, dial and movement signed • with a stainless steel Rolex bracelet with folding clasp

The "Pre-Daytona" with the silvered dial is the first Rolex chronograph to be fitted with the sunburst-finished dial, officially referred to as "cadran soleil argent", which gave the ideal background for the newly designed hands - for the first time in straight baton form. The new dial finish and baton-shaped hands can be found on all Rolex Daytona chronographs up to the mid 1980s, rendering these sports watches highly functional and giving them a particularly distinctive, masculine look.