Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 139

RoleX Ref 3668 Steel and PinK Gold Rolex, ?Oyster Chronograph, Anti-Magnetic?, case no. 47952, ref.3668. made in the 1940?s. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, stainless steel and 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter with a steel rolex buckle.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, engine-turned pink gold bezel with dot and baton hour divisions, screwed-down case back and crown, pink gold patent Oyster winding crown. D. Champagne with applied painted luminous Arabic and baton indexes, outer minutes/ seconds track, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, telemetre scale in blue and outermost tachometer scale. Luminous pink gold Alpha hands. M. Cal. 13???, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. thicKness 14 mm.