Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 185

Rolex Ref. 116519 - Wh ite Gold - Meteorite Dial - Cosmograph Daytona Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. M221881, Ref. 116519. Sold July 26th, 2008. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, meteorite dial and an 18K white gold Rolex deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee (now void), instruction manual and red seal tag.

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. Meteorite with applied radial white gold radial Roman numerals and square indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds division. White gold and black 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, selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 12 mm.