{"id":916,"date":"2013-09-06T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2014-08-29T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:36:02","slug":"the-first-rolex-daytona-cosmograph-chronograph-6238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/the-first-rolex-daytona-cosmograph-chronograph-6238\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Rolex Daytona : Cosmograph Chronograph 6238"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Introduced by Rolex in 1963, the first aptly titled Cosmograph Chronograph (ref. 6238) was produced in limited quantities, and officially began the &#8220;Daytona&#8221; series. \u00a0Although the original name in publication for the 6238 was &#8220;LeMans&#8221;, destiny obviously had other plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-921\" alt=\"rolex_daytona_cosmograph_chronograph_6238\" src=\"http:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day.jpg 800w, https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day-64x43.jpg 64w, https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/day-624x420.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>In our photo of the 6238 above, \u00a0the name &#8220;Daytona&#8221; is nowhere to be found. This is due to the fact that the name <a title=\"ROLEX WATCHES : Model Reference List\" href=\"http:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/rolex-model-list\/\">&#8220;Daytona&#8221;<\/a> was not included until the following production year (1964).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduced by Rolex in 1963, the first aptly titled Cosmograph Chronograph (ref. 6238) was produced in limited quantities, and officially began the &#8220;Daytona&#8221; series. \u00a0Although the original name in publication for the 6238 was &#8220;LeMans&#8221;, destiny obviously had other plans. In our photo of the 6238 above, \u00a0the name &#8220;Daytona&#8221; is nowhere to be found. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_965142119634467_129078757170083":"","twitter_1583341160_1583341160":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[193,197,194,196,18,192,195],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-rolex-watch","tag-daytona-6238","tag-first-daytona","tag-paul-newman","tag-paul-newman-daytona","tag-rolex-daytona","tag-rolex-daytona-cosmograph-chronograph","tag-rolex-daytona-paul-newman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubberb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}