Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 187

"Gold Cosmograph" Rolex, "Oyster, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph", Ref. 6265/6263. Made circa 1980. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold bezel with tachometer, and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box, instruction manual and Oyster booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bicolor champagne and black with applied gold baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous gold "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.