100 Years of Wristwatches

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Nov 19, 2000

LOT 282

Rolex Cosmograph 'Daytona', Ref. 6241, with black bezel, produced from 1961 to 1976Very fine, tonneau shaped, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round buttonchronograph, registers and tachometer. Accompanied by a stainless steel Oyster bracelet.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200units per hour. D. bicolor black and guilloché matte silver with tritium-coated applied black indexes, auxiliarydials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers, outer painted red 1/5th of second graduation.'Bâton' tritium-coated steel hands. M. 13''' rhodium plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balanceadjusted to 3 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case, and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm.