$57,600
The Rambo Daytona Rolex, "Oyster Cosmograph Daytona", Ref. 6263/6262. Made in the late 1970s. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with black bezel, round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by a 3-page biography of Colonel “Bo” Gritz. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour, case back engraved: COL BO GRITZ, OPN POW - MIA 1979 - 84. Bi-color matte silver and black with steel baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary black guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 727, 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. Notes Atrue American hero, Colonel James “Bo” Gritz was born on January 18, 1939 in Enid, Oklahoma and spent 22 years in the military, rising through the enlisted and officer ranks. He served as a Green Beret commander in Southeast Asia from 1964-1969 and was featured in General William Westmoreland’s memoir, “A Soldier Reports”. During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Gritz was the Intelligence Officer and Reconnaissance Chief for Delta Force, and commanded the first guerrilla forces which expa
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-04-17
