Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 15, 2015

LOT 125

ROLEX REF. 116519 DAYTONA DIAMOND BLACK DIAL WHITE GOLD Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona," case No. D298381, Ref. 116519. 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 Fliplock deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original warranty (now void), Chronometer certificate, hang tags and instruction booklet.

USD 15,000 - 20,000

HKD 116,000 - 155,000 / CHF 15,000 - 20,000

Sold: USD 18,125

Three-body, solid, 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. Bicolor black and silver set with 8 round diamond indexes and applied radial white gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer red 1/5th seconds track. White gold baton hands. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix and fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 1

As new

Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm.