Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 395

ROLEX REF. 116523 DAYTONA STEEL & GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona, case No. P344411, Ref. 116523. Made in 2000. Very fine, water-resistant, self- winding stainless steel and 18K yellow gold chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by the original fitted box, warranty (now void) and booklets.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw-down case back, buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor satine gray and gold with applied luminous yellow gold indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary gold ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, 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 200 mm.