$143,200
Ref 6239, Retailed by Cartier Rolex, “Cosmograph Daytona”, Ref. 6239, retailed by Cartier. Made in the early 1960s. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, steel bezel graduated to 200 units per hour, and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel, lug stamped with Cartier numbers. Bicolor black and silver with applied steel baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary silver guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 72 B, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-04-17
