Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 279

Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph "Daytona", Ref. 16520. Produced in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 100 meters, stainless steel gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, 50-hour autonomy and a special stainless steel Rolex Oysterlock bracelet.

C. Three-body, 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-colored black and silver with applied tritium coated steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Tritium coated steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 40 mm.