Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 342

Rolex, Ref. 116589, White Gold and Diamond Daytona Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona?, case No. D802968, Ref. 116589. Made in 2005. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold and diamond chronometer wristwatch, with round button chronograph, brilliant cut-diamonds set bezel, 12 hour and 30 minute registers and an 18K white gold Rolex deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and a ?Triplock? crown protected by the crown guard, the bezel is set with brilliant-cut diamonds, sapphire crystal. D. Bi-color black and silver with applied luminous white gold baton and square indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.