Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 305

ROLEX REF. 1675 GMT-MASTER STEEL & GOLD Rolex, Oyster Perpetual, GMT-Master, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, case No. 5979840. Made in 1979. Very fine, two time zone, center seconds, self-winding, water- resistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Chronometer wristwatch with date, 24-hour bezel and hand and a steel and yellow gold Rolex Jubilee bracelet with fliplock clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and crown, graduated bi-directional revolving gold bezel with brown insert for the second 24-hour time zone, crystal with cyclops lens. Brown with luminous yellow gold round, baton and triangular indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous yellow gold skeleton hands. Cal. 1570, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and five positions, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.