Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 1

ROLEX REF. 116523 DAYTONA STEEL & GOLD - BLUE DIAL Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona", case No. V579624, Ref. 116523. Sold in November 2009. Very fine, water-resistant, self- winding stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Rolex Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by the original Rolex fitted box, Guarantee (now void) and booklet.

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. Blue with applied luminous yellow gold radial Arabic numerals and square indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold and black baton hands Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism.