Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 99

?Paul Newman? Ref. 6265, Yellow Gold Cosmograph Daytona Rolex, Oyster, Cosmograph Daytona, Ref. 6265/6263. Made circa 1980. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, yellow gold bezel with tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate (now void), instruction booklet and a service invoice from Rolex, London dated September 18th, 2009.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screweddown case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bicolor champagne and black with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.