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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 37

Ref. 116519 Daytona Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona?, case No D289209, Ref. 116519/2119. Sold in October 2005. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Rolex Fliplock deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted Rolex box, booklet and guarantee (now void), and spare black dial.

C. Three-body, solid, 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 with applied luminous white gold baton indexes, subsidiary silver ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds division. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.