Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 257

ROLEX, REF. 1803, DAY DATE, PINK GOLD Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Day-Date, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified?, case No. 3564881, Ref. 1803. Made circa 1972. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, center seconds, selfwinding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold chronometer wristwatch with day and date and an 18K pink gold Rolex President bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, reeded bezel, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Linen textured pink with applied pink gold and black baton faceted indexes, luminous dots, apertures for the days of the week and the date, outer minute/ seconds division. Luminous pink gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1556, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case, and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.