Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 106

Rolex Daytona Beach Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. P490966, Ref. 116519. Made in 2000. Very fine, special edition, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold deployant Fliplock clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, hang tag, and guarantee (now void).

C. Three-body, solid, 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. Sodalite with applied radial white gold Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds divisions. White gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 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 12 mm.