Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 526

ROLEX REF. 68278 DATEJUST Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Datejust, Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified?, case No. illegible, Ref. 68278 (partially erased)/68000. Made in 1994. Fine, tonneau-shaped, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold mid-sized chronometer wristwatch with date and a Rolex buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, reeded bezel, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Off white with applied yellow gold baton indexes, luminous dots, inner painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 2135, rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, free-sprung self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 30 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm.