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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 182

Rolex, Oyster, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified Cosmograph, Ref. 6263, with black bezel, 1970?s.Fine water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer, with black bezel and 18K yellow gold Oyster bracelet.

CHF 24,000 - 28,000

Sold: CHF 29,900

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed down case back, chronograph buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. D. bicolor black and gold with applied gold bâton indexes and tritium dots, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers. ?Bâton? tritium-coated yellow gold hands. M. 13???, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-sping.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: * 3
Dial: 4 - 01

Notes

Ref. 6263Produced from 1961 to 1988, the first model with screwed buttons around 1970 as follows: 18K yellow gold, 14K yellow gold or stainless steel with gold, steel or black enamelled bezel.Some of them were fitted with an exotic dial so-calledPaul Newman, bearing the mention Oyster.Similar watches are published in Collezionare Orologi da Polso Rolex, 1998 Edition, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, pp. 353-354, 357-358 and 384.