Important Collectors Wristwatches, Po...

Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 147

Ref. 16519, White Gold Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona?, case No. U964529, Ref. 16519/2119. Made in 1998. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Rolex deployant clasp. Accompanied by a wooden Rolex box.

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. Bicolor black and silver with applied luminous white gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line 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.