Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 165

ROLEX REF. 116599 DAYTONA, BAGUETTE DIAMOND, WHITE GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona, case No. M810506, Ref. 116599. Made in 2008. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold, baguette diamond-set wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, diamond-set dial and lugs and an 18K white gold Rolex Fliplock deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Rolex fitted box, guarantee (now void), booklets, and two additional Rolex leather straps.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, the bezel set with 36 baguette diamonds, hooded lugs set with 48 white diamonds, screw down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, sapphire crystal. D. Diamond-set with applied blue Roman numerals, Arabic quarter-hour numerals, guilloche subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. White 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.