6238 Rolex Pre-Daytona Chronograph in 14k Yellow Gold

By Erik Gustafson | 3 May, 2023
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If everything Cosmograph is what gets you turned on, and you happen to be an American, I’m sorry for what I’m about to do. Nothing else come close to this 6238. With dial marked simply as ‘Rolex Chronograph’, as opposed to a movie credit scroll of modernity, a smooth, scale-less bezel, and in 14k yellow…

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Pre-Daytona Rolex 6238

By Erik Gustafson | 31 October, 2021
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Rolex AD hype appears to be all the community is capable of discussing right now. Yes, they’re a luxury marque. The antidote? Open yourself to the beautiful world of vintage ownership. Although it’s a perilous and much, much more fraught endeavor, vintage offers so much value even despite its recent rise. If you’re going vintage,…

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Pre-Daytona Rolex 6238 in Yellow Gold

By Erik Gustafson | 7 January, 2021
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Describing a gold wristwatch as elegance personified would be an incredible pretentious thing to do. And yet, here typing this, I am tempted to. These 6238s, like many early Rolex chronographs, don’t shout with bright colors or oversized lugs. They simply are icons. I’ve written before about the legacy of the Daytona and how the…

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