HODINKEE Takes a Retrospective Look at Eric Clapton's Rolex Pre-Daytona Reference 6034 in Rose Gold

Available to the highest bidder this weekend is one of the cooler vintage Rolexs to go on sale in recent memory: an early 1950s chronograph that once belonged to guitar god Eric Clapton. Due to be available this Saturday via online auction house Auctionata, the piece, as HODINKEE points out, is incredibly interested for a number of reasons. As reference 6034, the watch exists as one of Rolex's always unique "pre-Daytona" designs while eschewing both steel and yellow gold in favor of rose gold - ...