$19,200
Ref. 3055, Pink Gold “Piccolino” Rolex, “Chronograph, Anti-Magnetique”, Ref. 3055. Made in the 1950s. Very fine and extremely rare, small, 18K pink gold mid-sized wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Rolex buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, concave lugs. Ivory-colored with applied pink gold dart and diamond-shaped indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold alpha hands. Notes Amongst the various complications popular in contemporary wristwatches, the chronograph offers a most practical function in a broad spectrum of situations. Unlike early pocket watch predecessors, which, in a cumbersome process, required ink to literally write an elapsed period of time onto the dial, today’s user can quickly and conveniently activate the chronograph function by the push of a button, measuring short time intervals in addition to the watch’s general purpose of permanently displaying the hours, minutes and seconds. Hence and not surprising, almost all manufacturers offer a basic chronograph or models with added complications in their catalogues. Not a chronograph pioneer, Rolex focused its energies entirely on the water-resistant ‘Oyster’ and self-winding ‘Perpetual’ models. The success of these wristwatches pushed the firm into the position of a ‘sports watch’ manufacturer and logically, Rolex presented its fir
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-04-17
