54,280 CHF
Ref. 3595, So-Called “Rigid Hooded Steel and Pink Gold” Rolex, “Oyster Perpetual, Chronomètre”, Ref. 3595. Case No. 56111. Made in 1942. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with reeded pink gold hooded lugs and stainless steel and pink gold Rolex “Bamboo” bracelet. Accompanied by the original guarantee (now void). Three-body, bi-colored, polished and brushed, yellow gold bezel, hooded lugs and windingcrown, steel case. Three-tone gilt with luminous Arabic quarters and five minute divisions, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Luminous blued steel hands. Notes So-called “Rigid Hooded” watches in such good un-restored condition and still retaining their original bracelet and guarantee very rarely appear on the open market. The Bamboo bracelet on this watch is one of the first Rolex bracelets and is so-called due to its tubular forms, resembling a line of Bamboo canes. The caliber 9 3/4’’’, Ref. 620 ,was created in 1936 and was in regular production between 1940 and 1951. This watch is illustrated in “Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches”, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, 2001 Edition, pp.162, 163.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
