Rolex Milgauss Ref. 6541 (lightning bolt)
- Maker
- Rolex
- Year
- 1956-1960
- Rank
- 20 of 100
Rolex Milgauss Ref. 6541 (lightning bolt)
Rolex Milgauss Ref. 6541 (lightning bolt) by Rolex (1956-1960) is ranked 20 in the FLOAT 100 for Watches. It sold for $300,000. The original anti-magnetic Milgauss with the lightning-bolt hand — one of the rarest and most coveted vintage Rolex tool watches.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The original anti-magnetic Milgauss with the lightning-bolt hand — one of the rarest and most coveted vintage Rolex tool watches.
Ref. 6541, steel, honeycomb dial, rotating bezel, red lightning-bolt seconds hand
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $300,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
Condition-representative honeycomb-dial 6541 trades ~$265K-$345K (a 1958 honeycomb made $345,034 hammer at Christie's). Record CHF 2,238,000 (Phillips 2023, unpolished) excluded as outlier.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid 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