Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 79

PVD and Gold Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona,? Ref. 16523. Made in 1997. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel custom PVD coated and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, and a gold-plated Rolex buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, PVD coated case frame and back, 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. Bicolor black and champagne with applied luminous yellow gold indexes, subsidiary champagne-color ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodiumplated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.