Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 29

Ref. 6239, Stainless Steel ? Cosmograph Daytona? Rolex, ?Cosmograph, Daytona?, Ref. 6239 . Case No. 2623025. Made in 1971. Very fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, stainless steel bezel with tachometer graduated to 300UPH and 12-hour and 30-minute registers.

HKD 120,000 - 140,000

USD 16,000 - 18,000 / EUR 12,000 - 14,000

Sold: HKD 200,600

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 300 units per hour. D. Bicolored silver and black with applied steel ?bâton? indexes, luminous dots outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal 722-1, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of a Swiss Gentleman


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 3

Good

Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

A similar watch is published in "Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches", by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, 2005, vol. 1, p. 132.