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Hard to believe but they were not particularly expensive especially when heavily discounted...less than a GMT, sub, explorer as such.

Went into my AD in Upchurch in Colchester in UK in spring 1981, he had 3 Daytonas (2 *6263 and 1* 6265), that he'd taken out the window as they had not sold any at all in 6 months.

They were retail price £404 at the time and he asked me if i wanted one at half price £202.

However I was skint as I'd just bought two 1655 from him at half price earlier that year, so was not in a position to buy one...DOH !! :-/

Btw, £202 was about half about month's salary* in UK at the time, and was in today's money circa just £1200, so not a massive investment!

* Note - Wage inflation over 40 yrs is about 1.5 times price inflation so that 50% discounted Rolex Daytona would be about £1800 in today's money....boy they were cheap !!!