Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 250

?Class A Chronometer Deck Watch? Rolex, ?Class A Chronometer ? Observatory Quality ? Contrôlée Officiellement?, Ref. 35. Made in the 1940s, Fine and very rare, steel ?Snowhite?, chronometer deck watch in a 4-body mahogany case with brass-bound corners, the interior of the lid mounted with a plaque with the Rolex logo and listing the ?Class A? achievement.

C. Three-body, reeded covers, case back engraved with a train. D. Double-sunk, two-tone white and offwhite enamel with large painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 550 in ?Class A Observatory Quality?, rhodiumplated, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 52 mm.