$41,300
"Stainless Steel Cosmograph Daytona" Rolex, "Oyster Cosmograph Daytona", Ref. 6265/6263 with steel bezel. Sold on January 25, 1981. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by the original box, guarantee (now void), service invoice and instruction manual. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. Bi-color matte black and silver with steel baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary silver 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 Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Property of a Japanese Collector
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-03-28
