Why This Rolex Just Sold for £4.9 Million

A yellow-gold Rolex reference 6062 with a black dial and diamond hour markers sold for €5,330,000 (about £4.9 million) at Monaco Legend Group’s Exclusive Timepieces auction in Monte Carlo on 18–19 October 2025. The figure includes buyer’s premium, according to the auction house. It’s a new record for the reference and places this watch among the highest publicly recorded Rolex results at auction.

The Watch and the Result

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Introduced in 1950, the Rolex 6062 combines an automatic movement with a triple calendar and a moonphase display – all within a 36 mm Oyster case. It’s one of very few Rolex models to feature a moonphase, and even fewer to pair it with the brand’s water-resistant Oyster construction.

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This example, produced around 1953, has a glossy black dial with diamond hour markers at the odd hours and gilt calendar tracks. Its matching yellow-gold “tile” bracelet remains attached – unusual in itself. The configuration of black dial, diamond indices and yellow gold sits among the rarest known for the 6062, with only a handful of documented examples.

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Like the reference 8171, the 6062 uses small push-in correctors on the case band to set the calendar. Those correctors interrupt the case’s sealing, so moisture care is advised. Even so, the screw-down caseback and crown likely helped preserve many 6062 dials better than their snap-back 8171 counterparts.

The same watch last appeared publicly at Antiquorum’s Mondani sale in 2006, selling for CHF 469,700 (around £210,000 at the time). Nineteen years later, its value has multiplied more than fifteen-fold.

Why the 6062 Matters

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The 6062 captures a rare moment when Rolex paired mechanical sophistication with genuine visual flair. Across the reference you’ll find Stelline star markers, blue pointer-date numerals, applied Arabic numerals at 3 and 9, and a moonphase disc depicting a personified moon surrounded by stylised stars. It’s a side of Rolex design that feels far more playful than the brand’s modern image.

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Alongside its non-Oyster sibling, the 8171, the 6062 represents a short-lived era when Rolex experimented freely with both form and function. That blend of charm and engineering is a major reason the reference sits so high on collectors’ lists.

Where This Result Sits

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At roughly £4.9 million including premium, this sale sets a new record for the 6062 and joins the small group of Rolex watches to cross the £4 million mark at auction.

The 'Bao Dai' Rolex 6062. Image Source: Hodinkee

The best-known benchmarks remain the “Bao Dai” 6062 at just over £4 million (2017) and Paul Newman’s personal Daytona at about £14 million (2017). Currency conversions and premium structures can shift exact rankings, but the Monaco Legend 6062 clearly belongs in Rolex’s top tier of auction results.

The Broader Picture

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This sale reflects the trophy end of vintage Rolex collecting – not the broader resale market dominated by modern steel models. Average secondary-market prices have steadied after the post-2022 correction, but pieces like this operate on their own logic: historical importance, rare configuration, originality and condition drive value at the very top.

The Takeaway

A black-dial, diamond-index 6062 in near-original form surfaces rarely. When it does, it commands global attention and a price to match. The €5.33 million result at Monaco Legend is less about momentum than about priorities – collectors paying up for Rolex’s most imaginative decade, preserved.