Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 104

Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph "Daytona", Ref. 16528. Produced in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 m., 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold "Oyster" bracelet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-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. Bi-color champagne and black with tritium-coated yellow gold indexes, subsidiary black ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Tritium-coated yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to six positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 39 mm.Approx. overall max. length: 220 mm.