Offered in extremely attractive condition, the present example of reference 6265 is highlighted by its excellently preserved silver “Sigma” dial, defined by the two lowercase Greek letters sigma present before and after the “T Swiss T” designation. Such a detail is consequence of a directive of Aprior (Association pour la Promotion Industrielle de l’or - Industrial Gold Promotion Association) in the early 1970s, which noted that watchmaking houses should add the sigma to indicate the presence of gold indexes on the dial. Now synonymous with the 1970s, sigma dials were quickly abandoned probably due to their excessively cryptic nature, making them highly collectible.

Reference 6265 is the final incarnation of the steel bezel/screw pushers version of the manual Daytona, an evolution of reference 6240 featuring screw pushers and a black bezel. It was launched in the early 1970s in parallel with its black bezel brethren, reference 6263, the two references representing the final evolution of the manual Daytona. They will be followed in 1988 by the automatic model ref. 16520.