We are incredibly lucky to be able to offer this particular watch for sale as it is extremely rare to find one in such beautiful and original condition and accompanied by an original vintage period correct Rolex box and importantly the original purchase receipt! Unfortunately, the original box and booklets along with the warranty paperwork were taken from the original owner's home in a burglary some years ago, but the watch and surviving papers that we now have luckily were kept elsewhere.

The watch has been treasured by its one original owner who initially purchased an Omega from jewelers J W Benson, in London, but had a change of heart when the watch didn’t seem to keep accurate time. The jeweler agreed to exchange the Omega for the Rolex as at the time the Omega would have been more expensive. A stroke of genius as history would have it, as of course now, this beautiful chronograph is of much more value than the Omega would have been!

However, one cannot place only a financial value on a watch such as this, the utter beauty of the watch - an immaculate silver sunburst Panda dial with applied baton hour markers, rich black recessed subdials, and graceful stick hands with subtle luminous inserts - is undeniable. The applied Rolex crown at noon is underwritten by the Rolex Cosmograph and the "small" Daytona signatures, and is encapsulated under plexiglass, completed with an original and correct steel 300 units calibrated bezel and pump pusher chronograph buttons. The watch is in unbelievably good condition with minimal signs of light wear and is paired with its original 1960s bracelet that is also in remarkable condition and barely showing signs of stretch.

You will be hard pushed to find a better example of this rare and desirable reference from Rolex.