Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 134

ROLEX REF. 116520 ORANGE DIAL DAYTONA SO CALLED "CLOCKWORK ORANGE" STEEL Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona" case No. P 296887, Ref. 116520. Made in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oysterlock bracelet Ref. 78490. Accompanied by the original warranty and fitted box.

CHF 60,000 - 80,000

HKD 480,000 - 640,000 / USD 62,000 - 83,000

Sold: CHF 75,000

Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed down case back, push-buttons and crown, Triplock winding-crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Black with applied luminous white gold indexes, subsidiary silver ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds division. Luminous white gold baton hands. Cal. 4130, rhodium-plated, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. Approx. overall length 190 mm. According to our research, it appears a small series of orange dials were commissioned to Rolex for a celebration of the Dutch socer team . It appears that the left-over dials were then cased and sold to some dealers that had a demand for such watches, it appears mostly to the Italian market. It is the first time this orange dial configuration has appeared at auction, two other examples are known on the market.