Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 77

ROLEX REF. 6605 DATE JUST YELLOW GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual Datejust, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, case No. 253440, Ref. 6605. Made in 1956. Fine, tonneau-shaped, center seconds, self-winding, water resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date and an 18k yellow gold Rolex buckle. Accompanied by the bulletin de marche dated May 1957.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw down case back and crown, fluted bezel, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold dart indexes and luminous dots, outer minute track, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 1065, rhodium plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.