Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 14, 2011

LOT 43

ROLEX ? REF. 116505 ? DAYTONA ? PINK GOLD Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. V318268, Ref. 116505. Made in 2008. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold bezel with tachometer graduated to 400 units per hour, black dial and an 18K pink gold Rolex special Oysterlock link bracelet Ref. 78595. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate and manual. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied luminous pink gold indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Approx. overall length 195 mm.