Exceptional Horological Sale Celebrat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 290

"Medical Chronograph" Rolex Cosmograph, Ref. 6241, with pul-someter dial and steel bezel. Produced in the 1960s -1970s. Exceptionnaly rare and extremely fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, pulsometer and tachometer, with a stainless steel Oyster bracelet.

CHF 60,000 - 80,000

EUR 38,000 - 50,000 / USD 47,000 - 62,000

Sold: CHF 108,000

C. three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour.D. bicolored matte silver and black with applied steel indexes and tritium dots, "guilloché" subsidiary sunk seconds, 30 minute and 12-hour registers dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 15 pulsations in blue Arabic numerals. Tritium-coated steel "Bâton" hands.M. 13''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Approx. overall length 190 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

Ref. 6241 Produced from 1961 to 1976; the first examples with screwed-down buttons circa 1970.