Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 290

Rolex Ref. 116528 - Yellow Gold ? Daytona Black Dial Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. Z 185969, Ref. 116528. Made in 2006. Very fine, water-resistant, self-winding 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet Ref. 78498.

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 UPH, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied luminous yellow gold indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating free sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Approx. overall length 195 mm.