Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 337

ROLEX REF. 16519 WHITE GOLD DAYTONA MOTHER-OF-PEARL DIAL Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified Cosmograph Daytona, case No. U786474, Ref. 16519. Made in 1998. Fine self-winding, water resistant to 100 m, 18K white gold wristwatch with mother-of-pearl dial, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold deployant Rolex clasp. Accompanied by a 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. Mother-of-pearl with applied white gold Arabic numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. 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.