Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 682

ROLEX REF. 116518 COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA YELLOW GOLD Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona," case No. P515673, Ref. 116518. Made circa 2000. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold bezel with tachometer graduated to 400 units per hour and an 18K yellow gold Rolex deployant clasp. Accompanied by a certificate

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Bicolor black and champagne with applied luminous yellow gold obus indexes, subsidiary guilloche champagne dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer red 1/5th seconds track. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and to temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism.