Revolution: The Evolution of the Role...

New York, Apr 17, 2008

LOT 240

Ref. 6241, "Paul Newman" Rolex, Cosmograph Daytona, Ref. 6241. Made in the late 1960s. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, anti-reflect black bezel graduated to 200 units per hour and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box, 2 instruction booklets, hang tag and Guarantee document (now void).

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bicolor beige and black with applied steel indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 727-1, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating freesprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.