Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 54

Ref. 16523 "Cosmograph Daytona" Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona?, Ref. 16523/16500. Made in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, and stainless steel and gold Oyster Fliplock bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and gold buttons and crown, "Triplock" windingcrown protected by the "crown guard", tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-colored white and gold with applied luminous gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers. Luminous gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.