Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 369

Ref 1803, Day-Date Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Day-Date, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified?, case No. 1232731, Ref. 1803. Made in 1965. Fine, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with day and date and an 18K yellow gold Rolex President bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, warranty (now void) and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, reeded bezel, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes, luminous dots, outer minute divisions, apertures for the days of the week and the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1555, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to five position and to temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm.