Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 557

ROLEX REF. 116568 DAYTONA BAGUETTE BEZEL YELLOW GOLD Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona", case No. D805093, Ref. 116568. Made in 2005. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold and diamond Chronometer wristwatch, with round button chronograph, baguette-diamonds set bezel, 12 hour and 30 minute registers and an 18K yellow gold Rolex bracelet with deployant clasp.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and a "Triplock" crown protected by the crown guard, the bezel is set with 24 baguette-cut diamonds, sapphire crystal. Black with diamond indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism.