Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 132

ROLEX REF. 6265 YELLOW GOLD Rolex, "Oyster, Superlative Chronometer, officially certified, cosmograph" case no. 5035118, ref. 6265. Made in 1977. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 14K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screweddown case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 200 units per hour. Bicolor champagne and black with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer minutes/ seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws.