Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 83

"Stainless Steel Daytona" Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona", case No. U669665, Ref. 16520. Made in 1998, sold on December 15, 1998. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by original fitted box, certificate and booklets.

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. White with applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary black ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.