Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 229

Ref. 6034 Stainless Steel So-Called ?Pre-Daytona? Rolex, ?Oyster Chronographe, Anti-Magnetic", Ref. 6034, case No. 907337. Made in 1952. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter and a stainless steel riveted Oyster bracelet.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown. D. Matte silver with applied steel teardrop indexes and luminous dot markers, minute track with fifths of a second divisions and Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer black painted tachometer and blue painted telemeter graduations. Luminous steel ?Alpha? hands. M. Cal. 72A, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case, and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 14 mm.