Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 328

ROLEX REF. 16753 GMT-MASTER STEEL & GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, GMT-Master, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, case No. 4476130. Made in 1977. Very fine, two time zone, center seconds, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with date, 24-hour bezel and hand and a steel and yellow gold Rolex Jubilee bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, graduated bi-directional revolving gold bezel with two-tone insert for the second 24-hour time zone, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Brown with luminous yellow gold round, baton and triangular indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold skeleton hands. M. Cal. 3075, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and five positions, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. Approx. overall length 210 mm