Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 228

Ref. 16528, Diamond Dial Yellow Gold Cosmograph Daytona Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona," Ref. 16528. Made in 1998. 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 (now void), booklets, original fitted box and a service invoice from Rolex Japan.

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 white and champagne with 8 round diamond-set yellow gold cushion-shaped indexes and Arabic quarter hour numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary guilloche champagne ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Yellow gold and black baton hands.M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.