Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 128

Rolex Ref. 116598 Yellow Gold Daytona ? Diamond & Cognac Sapphire Leopard ? Special Edition Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. D810530, Ref. 116598. Sold on July 22, 2006. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold, diamond and cognac sapphire-set wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, special diamond-set leopard dial, leopard strap and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Fliplock deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Rolex fitted box, guarantee (now void) and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, the bezel set with 36 baguette cognac sapphires, hooded lugs set with 48 white diamonds, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, sapphire crystal. D. Leopard skin effect with applied yellow gold and diamond-set square indexes, Arabic quarter-hour numerals, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Yellow gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, 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, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.