Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Rolex ref. 6262 was produced during a very short window, between 1970 and 1972, making it one of the scarcest ‘pump-pusher’ vintage Daytona models in existence. This stainless-steel example, made around 1970, is one of fewer than five from that reference thought to exist today with a dial co-signed by the jeweller Tiffany & Co.
It was purchased from Tiffany & Co.’s Beverly Hills boutique by George Peppard, the Hollywood actor who became a household name after playing Paul Varjak opposite Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly in the iconic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Not long after Peppard purchased the watch — similar to the stainless-steel Daytona he wore every day and in some of his movies — he had the case-back engraved ‘Brad Peppard December 1972 Love Dad’. Bradford was his first child, and he gifted him the watch on Christmas Day 1972. It’s been in his possession ever since.
During the 1980s, George Peppard returned to fame as Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the hit TV show The A-Team. ‘When I think of my father, I always imagine him wearing his Rolex. It was simply a part of him,’ says Bradford Peppard. ‘So you can well imagine my delight, my amazement, when Christmas of 1972 I found exactly the same watch he loved waiting for me under the Christmas tree.’
‘To find a Tiffany & Co. co-signed Daytona is rare. To find it on the dial of a stainless-steel ref. 6262 is incredible. To have that watch appear on the market for the first time, after spending more than half a century in the collection of the son of the actor who starred in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, is legendary,’ says Matthieu Ruffat, a senior specialist and head of sale at Christie’s Watches and Wristwatches department in Geneva.
The Rolex ref. 6262 was produced during a very short window, between 1970 and 1972, making it one of the scarcest ‘pump-pusher’ vintage Daytona models in existence. This stainless-steel example, made around 1970, is one of fewer than five from that reference thought to exist today with a dial co-signed by the jeweller Tiffany & Co.
It was purchased from Tiffany & Co.’s Beverly Hills boutique by George Peppard, the Hollywood actor who became a household name after playing Paul Varjak opposite Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly in the iconic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Not long after Peppard purchased the watch — similar to the stainless-steel Daytona he wore every day and in some of his movies — he had the case-back engraved ‘Brad Peppard December 1972 Love Dad’. Bradford was his first child, and he gifted him the watch on Christmas Day 1972. It’s been in his possession ever since.
During the 1980s, George Peppard returned to fame as Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the hit TV show The A-Team. ‘When I think of my father, I always imagine him wearing his Rolex. It was simply a part of him,’ says Bradford Peppard. ‘So you can well imagine my delight, my amazement, when Christmas of 1972 I found exactly the same watch he loved waiting for me under the Christmas tree.’
‘To find a Tiffany & Co. co-signed Daytona is rare. To find it on the dial of a stainless-steel ref. 6262 is incredible. To have that watch appear on the market for the first time, after spending more than half a century in the collection of the son of the actor who starred in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, is legendary,’ says Matthieu Ruffat, a senior specialist and head of sale at Christie’s Watches and Wristwatches department in Geneva.
