Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 292

ROLEX REF. 2801 SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Rolex, Genève, Chronograph, case No. 25684, Ref. 28D1. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and extremely rare, stainless steel Staybrite pocket watch with co-axial button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.

USD 3,000 - 4,000

HKD 23,000 - 31,000 / CHF 2,900 - 3,800

Sold: USD 5,625

Three-body, "bassine" polished. Two-tone silver with painted Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th second divisions with Arabic five minute/ second markers, outermost red tachometer and black telemeter scales, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds at 6 and the 30-minute register at 12. Blued steel feuille hands. Cal. 17''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-7-01

Good

Oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

DIAM. 44 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm.