Reference 6611 must be considered one of the rarest Day-Date models, and examples in white gold are the rarest gems in the entire field of wristwatch collecting. In fact in forty years of international auctions scholars have not even counted a handful of these treasures. The present example, coming from one of the finest collections of vintage wristwatches, has a number of noteworthy features underlining its importance. The dial with its outer half minute track at an angle has a wonderful pale champagne patina and is adorned with 10 diamond hour markers. Its elegance is enhanced by not being overloaded with luminous dots, a fact matching the white gold hands being non luminous as well. The Jubilee bracelet in white gold dated 1957 is equally rare. It is a treat for a collector that it is still together with the watch after more than half a century. Few Rolex Day-Dates are as elegant yet understated and of such rarity and importance as the present one.