Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 114

ROLEX REF. 16520 ZENITH DAYTONA STEEL Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona", case No. A140691, Ref. 16520/16500. Sold on June 11th, 1999. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by the original warranty, fitted box and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back, chronograph buttons and Triplock winding crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Bicolor black with silver subsidiary dial rings, applied luminous white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws.