Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 262

ROLEX REF. 116518 YELLOW GOLD COSMOGRAPH DATONA Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,? case No. V435693, Ref. 116518. Sold December 31st, 2009. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, gold bezel with tachometer graduated to 400 units per hour and an 18K yellow gold Rolex deployant clasp Ref. 24640. Accompanied by the original fitted box, warranty card (now void) and booklets.

C. 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
D. Blue with applied luminous yellow gold radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track. Luminous yellow gold baton hands
M. Cal 4130, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and to temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm.