Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 76

?Daytona? Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph "Daytona", Ref. 16528. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 m., 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oyster bracelet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, "Triplock" winding crown protected by the "crown guard", tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color champagne and black with tritium coated yellow gold indexes, subsidiary black ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Tritium-coated yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium plated, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 13 mm.