Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 148

ROLEX REF. 116200 DATEJUST STEEL, KING OF BAHRAIN CREST Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Datejust, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, case No. Z936760, Ref. 116200. Made in 2008. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date and a stainless steel Rolex Jubilee bracelet with concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate (now void), hang tags and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, domed polished bezel, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Satine silver with applied luminous white gold baton indexes, outer minute track with 5-minute/seconds Roman markers, aperture for the date (alternate red & black), imprint of the Crest for the King Hamad Bin Essa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 3135, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 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, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.