Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 80

ROLEX REF. 116509 DAYTONA WHITE GOLD Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona", case No. D162842, Ref. 116509. Made in 2005. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet. To be sold without reserve

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. Anthracite with applied white gold radial Arabic numerals and luminous indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer red minute/seconds track. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, 44 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating freesprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Approx overall length 170 mm.