Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 336

ROLEX REF. 16520 STEEL DAYTONA COLOR CHANGE DIAL Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified Cosmograph Daytona, case No. T631574, Ref. 16520. Made in 1996. Fine self-winding, water resistant to 100 m, stainless steel wristwatch with color change dial, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oysterlock bracelet Ref. 78390. Accompanied by a fitted box and warranty (now void).

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, Triplock winding-crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied white gold Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. White gold bâton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Approx. overall length 185 mm