Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 76

Ref. 116528, Yellow Gold Cosmograph Daytona Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona, Ref. 116528. Made in 2003. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch, with round button chronograph, registers, bezel with tachometer graduation and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet, Ref. 78498. Accompanied by the original fitted box, warranty (now void) and booklets.

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