59,000 CHF
Ref. 3481 Stainless Steel “Antimagnetic” Rolex, “Oyster Chronograph Antimagnetic”, Ref. 3481. Case No. 122022. Made in 1939. Very fine and very rare, stainless steel, water-resistant, mid-sized wristwatch with round-button chronograph, register and stainless steel Rolex buckle. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down back and crown, engine-turned bezel with hour divisions, concave lugs. Brushed silvered with black painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second track with Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Blued steel “baton” hands. 10 1/2’’’, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial and movement signed Rolex, case signed Oyster Watch Co. Diam. 28 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Notes Reference 3481 was produced in stainless steel only with a choice of steel, yellow or pink gold graduated bezel. This watch is illustrated in “Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches”, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, 2001 Edition, p. 419.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
