Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 164

ROLEX, REF. 16518, DAYTONA YELLOW GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona, case No. S499107, Ref. 16518. Made circa 1993, sold October 19th, 2004. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex Fliplock deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fi tted wooden box, guarantee (now void), booklet, hang tags and service invoice dated April 6th, 2011.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor champagne and black with applied yellow gold and luminous inlay baton and square indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.