Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 456

Ref. 16523, Two-Tone Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona?, Ref. 16523. Made in 1991. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel, 18K yellow gold and diamond wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, and a stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Oysterlock Ref. 78393 bracelet. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and gold buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone champagne and black with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and 8 diamonds set in yellow gold cushion-shaped indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, shock absorber selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.