Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 259

Rolex 6263 Gold Cosmograph Rolex, ?Oyster, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph?, case No. 5996795, Ref. 6263. Made circa 1979. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold black bezel with tachometer graduated to 200 units per hour and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Oyster riveted bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Rolex box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the black gold bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bi-color black and champagne with applied yellow gold baton indexes, luminous dots, outer minute/seconds division, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous gold baton hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13.5 mm. Approx overall length 190 mm.