Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 234

ROLEX REF. 6263 COSMOGRAPH, 14K YELLOW GOLD Rolex, Oyster, Superlative Chronometer, officially Certified, Cosmograph, case No. 4089973, Ref. 6263. Made in 1975. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, 14K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold bezel with tachometer and a 14K yellow gold Rolex Jubilee bracelet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bicolor champagne and black with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 37 mm.