Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 265

"Stainless Steel Cosmograph Daytona" Rolex, "Oyster Cosmograph Daytona", Ref. 6265/6262 with steel bezel. Sold on August 25, 1973. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by the original box, guarantee (now void) and bill of sale.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour, case back engraved: ?Mark R. Shapiro?. D. Bi-color matte black and silver with steel baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary silver ?guilloché? dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 727, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.