Rolex Explorer 6098

ROLEX. A HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT EXPEDITION-WORN STAINLESS STEEL WRISTWATCH PRESENTED TO COLONEL BAIRD BY THE SWISS FOUNDATION FOR ALPINE RESEARCH (S.F.A.R.) IN 1953 SIGNED ROLEX, ‘PROTOTYPE PRE-EXPLORER’ MODEL, REF. 6098, CASE NO. 916'487, CIRCA 1952 Movement: Automatic Dial: Matte silvered with luminous accents, luminous hands Case: 36 mm. diam., caseback engraved 'To Col. P.D. Baird from the S.F.A.R. Zurich, 1953', inside caseback stamped 'IV, 52' Remark: The property of the family of Colonel P.D. Baird and worn during the Swiss-Canadian Baffin Island Arctic Expedition