Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 233

ROLEX REF. 4099 Rolex, ?Chronographe, Anti-Magnetic?, No. 583145, Ref. 4099. Made circa 1944. Very fine and rare, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, flared fluted stainless steel lugs, concave bezel, snap-on numbered case back. D. Silvered with applied gilt index markers and 12, 6 Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, minute/ seconds division, inner blue telemeter scale, outermost tachometer scale. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. based Valjoux 23, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.