Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 290

Rolex Ref. 1601 Steel & Pink Gold Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Datejust, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified, case No. 3263509, Ref. 1601. Made circa 1971. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel and pink gold chronometer wristwatch with date and a stainless steel and pink gold Jubilee bracelet. To be sold without reserve To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, fluted pink gold bezel, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Purple blue with applied pink gold baton indexes and tritium dots, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Tritium pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1570, rhodium-plated, oeil-deperdrix decoration, 26 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Approx overall length 190 mm.