Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 279

?Steel Ref. 6239? Rolex, Oyster, ?Cosmograph Daytona?, Ref. 6262/6239. Made in the late 1960s. Very fine, water resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, steel bezel graduated to 200 units per hour and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel. D. Bicolor black and matte silver with applied steel baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.