13,750 CHF
Rolex Ref 18078 Turquoise Dial Yellow Gold Rolex, “Oyster Perpetual, Day-Date, Superlative Chronometer officially Certified”, case no. 6262041, ref. 18078/18000. Made circa 1980. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, center-seconds, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with day and date and turquoise dial. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved lugs, bark-finished bezel, screwed-down case back and crown, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Turquoise dial, apertures for the gold-rimmed day and date. Luminous gold baton hands. Cal. 3055, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decorations, 27 jewels, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and five positions, straight line lever escapement, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DiaM. 36 mm. tHiCKness 13 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
