Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 490

Stainless Steel Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona?, Ref. 16520, case No. A901209. Made in 1999, sold on February 9th, 2001. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster-lock bracelet. Accompanied by fitted Rolex box, certificate, instructions and wallet

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back, chronograph buttons and Triplock winding-crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied Luminova luminous white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.