Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005

LOT 24

?Mother-of-Pearl Dial? Rolex Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified Cosmograph "Daytona", Ref. 16519. Made in 2001. Fine self-winding, water-resistant down to 100 meters, 18K white gold and diamond gentleman's wristwatch, with round button chronograph, register and tachometer, 50-hour power reserve and an 18K white gold deployant Rolex "Fliplock" clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, "Triplock" winding-crown protected by the "Crown Guard", tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Mother-of-pearl with tritium-coated white gold Arabic numerals and diamond indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" white gold ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Tritium-coated white gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm.