The Mondani Collection of Rolex Wrist...

Geneva, May 14, 2006

LOT 34

Ref. 3055, So-called ?Piccolino? Rolex "Chronographe, Anti- Magnetique", Ref. 3055. Case No. 848592. Made in 1952. Very fine and extremely rare, small, 18K pink gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, registers, tachometer and Rolex gold plated buckle.

CHF 20,000 - 30,000

EUR 13,000 - 20,000 / USD 16,000 - 24,000

Sold: CHF 29,500

C. Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, concave lugs. D. Beige with applied pink gold diamond shaped and dart indexes, outer minutes and fifth second divisions, subsidiary seconds and 30 minute register, outer tachometer. Gold ?Alpha" hands. M. Cal. 10 1/2''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 30 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-5-01

Good

Poor

HANDS Original

Notes

This reference was first released in the 1930s with olive button chronograph and then relaunched in the 1950s with the same reference and square button chronograph. This watch is illustrated in ?Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches?, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, 2001 Edition, p. 395.