Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 339

Rolex Ref. 1514 - Date Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Date, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified?, case No 6120291, Ref. 1514/1500. Sold on October 29th, 1979. Fine and very rare, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer?s wristwatch with date and a yellow gold-plated Rolex buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, booklet and guarantee (now void).

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, bezel with engraved decoration, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer minute/second division, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1570, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung blued steel Breguet balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.