Exceptional Horological Sale Celebrat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 11

Rolex "Oyster Chronograph, Anti-magnetic", Ref. 6034. Manufactured in the 1950s-60s. Very fine tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with pink dial, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and telemeter, and a gold-plated Rolex buckle.

CHF 33,000 - 43,000

EUR 20,800 - 27,100 / USD 25,700 - 33,500

Sold: CHF 55,200

C. two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown.D. pink with applied gold dart indexes, "guilloché" subsidiary sunk seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduations, concentric, telemeter scale in blue Arabic numerals. Pink gold "Alpha" hands.M. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case, and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 3

Good

Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

Ref. 6034 Produced in the 1950s and early 1960s, Ref. 6034 followed Ref. 4537, which was produced in 1946 in very few examples, in yellow or pink gold, and stainless steel. Similar watches are published in "Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches", by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova 2001, pp. 429, 430, 431, 432, 486.