$48,000
Ref. 3330, Stainless Steel Rolex, Chronograph, Antimagnetic, Ref. 3330. Made in the early 1940’s. Very fine and extremely rare stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Rolex buckle. Three-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. Matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second track with 5-minute Arabic markers, most outer tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous blued steel baton hands. Cal. 14’’’, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes The Rolex Reference 3330 is probably one of the most attractive and rarest early steel chronographs produced. Its design is particularly avant-garde, featuring a large oversized case (38 mm) and a beautiful thickness foreshadowing that of today's trendy chronographs. It would appear that over the last 10 years, fewer than 10 examples of this reference have appeared at auction, making this reference one of the rarest true classic steel Rolex chronographs.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-12-11
