Importantes Montres de Collection

Geneva, May 15, 2011

LOT 529

Rolex, Ref. 16808, Yellow Gold Submariner, Color Change Dial Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual Date, Submariner, 1000 ft./300m, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified?, case No. 7066731, Ref. 16808/16800. Made in 1981. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date, blue bezel and a yellow gold Rolex buckle.

C. Three-body,solid, polished and brushed, curved lugs, graduated unidirectional revolving blue bezel for the decompression times, screwed-down case back and crown, Triplock winding-crown protected by the crown guard, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Color change, with applied gold luminous round, triangular and baton gold indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold skeleton hands. M. Cal. 3035, rhodium-plated, 27 jewels, straight-line 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. 40 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.