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Geneva, May 15, 2005

LOT 33

Rolex, Cosmograph "Daytona", color change dial, Ref. 6239. Produced in the early 1960s. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, stain-less steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, brown registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Oyster bracelet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down caseback and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 300units per hour. D. Bicolored satiné silver and "guilloche"brown "black" with applied steel bâton indexes, outertritium-coated dots, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the12-hour and 30-minute registers. "Bâton" tritium-coatedsteel hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels,straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance,shock-absorber, sefl-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.