The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wrist...

Geneva, May 14, 2006

LOT 252

Ref. 3481 Stainless Steel ?Antimagnetic? Rolex, ?Oyster Chronograph Antimagnetic?, Ref. 3481. Case No. 122022. Made in 1939. Very fine and very rare, stainless steel, water-resistant, mid-sized wristwatch with round-button chronograph, register and stainless steel Rolex buckle.

CHF 40,000 - 60,000

EUR 26,000 - 40,000 / USD 30,000 - 45,000

Sold: CHF 59,000

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down back and crown, engine-turned bezel with hour divisions, concave lugs. D. Brushed silvered with black painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second track with Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Blued steel ?baton? hands. M. 10 1/2???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial and movement signed Rolex, case signed Oyster Watch Co. Diam. 28 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3-15

Good

Slightly rusted

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-33-01

Good

Restored

HANDS Original

Notes

Reference 3481 was produced in stainless steel only with a choice of steel, yellow or pink gold graduated bezel. This watch is illustrated in ?Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches?, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, 2001 Edition, p. 419.