Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 363

ROLEX, REF. 116589, DAYTONA, BAGUETTE RUBY WHITE GOLD Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona", case No. P193705, Ref. 116589. Sold in September 2002. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold and diamond Chronometer wristwatch, with round button chronograph, baguette-diamonds set bezel, 12 hour and 30 minute registers and an 18K white gold Rolex deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and guarantee.

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. Purple Sodalite with diamond indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions. White 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. Dial, case and movement signed.