129,750 CHF
ROLEX REF. 6240 SO-CALLED SOLO ROLEX STAINLESS STEEL Rolex, case No. 1269462, Ref. 6240/6239. Made circa 1965. Very fine and extremely rare, early, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, anti-reflective black bezel graduated to 200 units per hour. Accompanied by a service invoice from Rolex Geneva dated November 2012, a Rolex service box and a leather strap with a stainless steel Rolex buckle.. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 200 units per hour. Bi-color black and silver with applied black steel indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/ seconds division. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 72B, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung fl at balance spring, Microstella regulating screws. Notes Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 37 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm. During the economic boom of the Sixties, ROLEX was searching for new solutions more in tune with the era's craving for progress. This generated the creation of REFERENCE 6240: a totally waterproof chronograph, equipped for the first time with screw down pushers. The initial steps were experimental, and it appears that the present lot is one of the earliest examples ever manufactured. It is a kind of preproduction model, created be Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-11-08
