Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 346

Rolex Ref. 6241 Paul Newman Rolex, ?Cosmograph, Daytona", case No. 1764745, Ref. 6241. Made in 1968. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with anti-reflective black tachometer bezel, round button chronograph, registers and a stainless steel Oyster riveted bracelet. Accompanied by a Rolex box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bicolor, off-white and black with applied square steel indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary black dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/ seconds division in red. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 722-1, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to three positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.