Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 106

Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph "Daytona", Ref. 16519. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 m., 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, 50-hour autonomy and a Rolex 18K white gold deployable "Fliplock" clasp. Accompanied by a box and certificate.

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. White with tritium-coated white gold Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" white gold ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Tritium-coated white gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 40 mm.