Exceptional Horological Sale Celebrat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 658

Rolex "Antimagnetic", Ref. 3529. Manufactured in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, square 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and a gold-plated Rolex buckle.

CHF 8,000 - 12,000

EUR 5,000 - 7,600 / USD 6,000 - 9,400

Sold: CHF 28,750

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, sharp angles, straight lugs, flat top crystal.D. Matte silver with paintedArabic numerals and indexes, guilloché subsidiary sunk seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer graduationfor the minutes, at the center, spiral tachometric and 1/5th second scale. Blued steel "Bâton" hands.M. Cal. 10 1/2???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallicbalance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 26 x 26 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3

Good

Dial: 3 - 01

Notes

Similar watches are published in "Collecting Rolex Wristwatches", by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore Genova, 2001, pp. 81, 403 to 405 and 483.