Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 225

Stainless Steel Diamond Dial Daytona" Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, "Cosmograph Daytona," Ref. 16520. Made in the early 1990s. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and diamond gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Oysterlock bracelet.

C. Three-body, 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. Bicolor white and black with applied diamond-set white gold indexes, subsidiary black ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodiumplated, "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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.