Rolex Daytona Ref. 6265 (steel)
- Maker
- Rolex
- Year
- 1971-1987
- Rank
- 6 of 100
Rolex Daytona Ref. 6265 (steel)
Rolex Daytona Ref. 6265 (steel) by Rolex (1971-1987) is ranked 6 in the FLOAT 100 for Watches. It carried a market asking price of $90,000 in May 2026, which is not a sale. The steel-bezel sibling of the 6263 closing out the manual-wind Daytona era — a core vintage reference.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The steel-bezel sibling of the 6263 closing out the manual-wind Daytona era — a core vintage reference.
Ref. 6265, steel, screw-down pushers, engine-turned bezel
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $90,000
- Kind
- Market asking price, not a sale
- Date
- May 2026
Standard steel 6265 trades ~$70K-$130K; midpoint used. The unique white-gold 'Unicorn' 6265 ($5.94M, Phillips 2018) is an outlier and excluded.
This is not a sale. It is what the market was asking, and no transaction is recorded behind it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08