Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 355

Ref. 16523, Stainless Steel And Gold ?Daytona? Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona?, case No. U427444, Ref. 16523. Made in 1997. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, and a stainless steel and gold Oyster ?Fliplock? bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and gold buttons and crown, "Triplock" winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolored black 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 5 positions and temperature, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.