Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 271

ROLEX, REF. 18956 METEORITE DAY-DATE DIAMOND AND PLATINUM Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual Day-Date, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified", case No. K597044, Ref. 18956. Made in 2001. Extremely fine and impressive, heavy platinum, center-seconds, self-winding, water- resistant wristwatch set with baguette white diamonds, day, date and a solid platinum Pearlmaster bracelet with platinum deployant clasp. Accompanied by a box and booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed- down case back and crown, inclined bezel set with 42 shaped baguette diamonds, curved lugs, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Meteorite with applied white gold indexes set with two dart-shaped diamonds, applied white gold Arabic numerals, seconds divisions, apertures for the day and the date. White 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 Breguet balance spring, quick adjustment of the date and of the day of the week, hack mechanism.