Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 90

Rolex, Ref. 6265 SteeL Cosmograph, Big Red Daytona Rolex, Oyster Cosmograph Daytona, no. 6043984, ref. 6265/6263. Made in 1979. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, steel bezel with tachometer and a stainless steel rolex ref. 78350 oyster bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the steel bezel to 200 units per hour. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied faceted steel baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating freesprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. DiaM. 37 mm. tHiCKness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 160 mm.