200,600 HKD
Ref. 6239, Stainless Steel “ Cosmograph Daytona” Rolex, “Cosmograph, Daytona”, Ref. 6239 . Case No. 2623025. Made in 1971. Very fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, stainless steel bezel with tachometer graduated to 300UPH and 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 300 units per hour. Bicolored silver and black with applied steel “bâton” indexes, luminous dots outer minute/seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel "baton" hands. Cal 722-1, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, lever escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of a Swiss Gentleman Notes A similar watch is published in "Rolex, Collecting Wristwatches", by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, 2005, vol. 1, p. 132.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
