$31,200
Ref. 16520 Color Change Mark I Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona", Ref. 16520. Made in the early 1990s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Oysterlock bracelet. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Guarantee Certificate (now void), hang tag, red seal, wallet with 2 instruction booklets and a recent service invoice. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Bicolor black and reddish silver with applied luminous steel indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes The reference 16520 was one of the first modern Rolex to show some color change around the Sub-dials. Some debate still remains around the real reasons of this "color-change" ranging from defective materials originally used by Rolex to exposure to ultra-violet light. With the ever-increasing t Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-04-17
