Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 62

Rolex Ref. 16519 - White Gold - Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. U 900917, Ref. 16519. Made in 1998. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Rolex deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor white and silver with applied white gold Arabic numerals and luminous white gold baton indexes, subsidiary silver ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 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 13 mm.