Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 227

Ref. 16528, Yellow Gold Cosmograph Daytona Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona," Ref. 16528. Made in 1991. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch, with round button chronograph, registers, bezel with tachometer graduated to 400 UPH and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by the original warranty, booklets, hang tags and original fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor champagne and black with applied luminous gold baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary black ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, 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.