Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 455

Ref. 16518 Yellow Gold Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona?, Ref. 16518. Made circa 1993. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold and diamond set wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Fliplock deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color white and black with applied diamond markers set within yellow gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straightline 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.