$15,600
Daytona Beach Rolex, “Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph Daytona,” Ref. 116519. Made in 2000. Very fine, special-edition, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold deployant Fliplock clasp. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, Triplock winding-crown protected by the Crown Guard, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Sodalite with applied radial white gold Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. White gold baton hands. Cal. 4130, rhodium plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 44 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-12-11
