Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 2

ROLEX REF. 118238 YELLOW GOLD DAY-DATE - DIAMOND DIAL Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Day Date, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified", case No. Y904000, Ref. 118238. Made in 2002, sold on September 21, 2003. Very fine, heavy, 18K yellow gold, water-resistant, center-seconds self-winding wristwatch with day, date, diamond-set dial and an 18K yellow gold Rolex President bracelet with concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Rolex box, hang-tags, Guarantee (now void), handkerchief, wallet, notebooks and booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, faceted bezel, curved lugs, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Satine silver with applied yellow gold diamond-set hour indexes, baguette diamond quarter-hour indexes, outer Roman numerals on the minute/seconds track, apertures for the days of the week and the date. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 3155, rhodium plated, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to five positions and temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, quick adjustment of the date and of the day of the week, hack mechanism.