Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 335

ROLEX REF. 16520 STEEL DAYTONA Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified Cosmograph Daytona, case No. A970409, Ref. 16520. Made in 1998. Fine self-winding, water resistant to 100 m, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oysterlock bracelet Ref. 78390. Accompanied by a hang tags, red seal, fitted box and warranty (now void).

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. White with applied luminous white gold Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous 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. Thickness 12 mm. Approx. overall length 200 mm.