Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 291

Cosmograph Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona?, Ref. 16518. Made in the early 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex deployable clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate (now void).

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the Crown Guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Mother-of-pearl with applied gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of Various Owners