Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Feb 07, 2015

LOT 262

ROLEX REF. 16518 COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA YELLOW GOLD Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona", case No. A734520, Ref. 16518. Made in 1995. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. White with applied yellow gold and black inlay Arabic numerals and luminous square indexes, subsidiary champagne ring dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism.