Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 15, 2015

LOT 119

ROLEX REF. 116509 DAYTONA WHITE GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona, case No. Z506768, Ref. 116509. Made in 2005. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by a box.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw 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. Satiné silver with applied black radial Arabic numerals and luminous quarter indexes, subsidiary black ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds track. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, 44 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.