7,800 CHF
Ref. 16523, Stainless Steel and Yellow Gold “Daytona” Rolex, “Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona”, case No. L718676, Ref. 16523/16500. Made in 1990. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel, 18K yellow gold and diamond wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, and a stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Oyster bracelet. Accompanied by booklets. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and gold buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Bi-color black and champagne with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and 8 diamonds set in yellow gold cushion-shaped indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, shock absorber self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Approx overall length 185 mm. Notes Around 1988, Rolex decided to discontinue the now classic Daytona manual-wind model. They replaced it by a brand model that also featured anew automatic movement. At the time, Rolex was not producing an in-house automatic c
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
