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Rolex
Ref. 16520
Cosmograph Daytona
A fine and rare stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with tropical registers, bracelet and original guarantee
- Estimate
- HK$80,000 - 160,000€9,600 - 19,300$10,000 - 20,000
HK$225,000
Lot Details
- Manufacturer
- Rolex
- Year
- Circa 1993
- Reference No
- 16520
- Movement No
- 81'225
- Case No
- S817333
- Model Name
- Cosmograph Daytona
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Calibre
- Automatic, 4130, 33 jewels
- Bracelet/Strap
- Stainless steel <em>Rolex Oyster</em> bracelet, 176 mm. maximum length
- Clasp/Buckle
- Stainless steel <em>Rolex </em>twinlock folding deployant clasp
- Dimensions
- 39 mm. diameter
- Signed
- <em>Case, dial and movement signed</em>
- Accessories
- With <em>Rolex </em>undated Garantie and leather wallet.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The automatic Daytona can be found with a variety of differences that the market identifies and makes them highly collectible today.
Whether it is a suspended logo, Arabic numerals or porcelain dials, premiums are paid for the rarest difference.
The present lot features one of these variants in a form of tropical registers, where the original white finish has turned into a warm chocolate brown, giving the watch a very unique character. The watch is also in excellent overall condition.
Whether it is a suspended logo, Arabic numerals or porcelain dials, premiums are paid for the rarest difference.
The present lot features one of these variants in a form of tropical registers, where the original white finish has turned into a warm chocolate brown, giving the watch a very unique character. The watch is also in excellent overall condition.
Literature
Rolex
Swiss | 1905Founded in 1905 England by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis as Wilsdorf & Davis, it soon became known as the Rolex Watch Company in 1915, moving its headquarters to Geneva in 1919. Like no other company, the success of the wristwatch can be attributed to many of Rolex's innovations that made them one of the most respected and well-known of all luxury brands. These innovations include their famous "Oyster" case — the world's first water resistant and dustproof watch case, invented in 1926 — and their "Perpetual" — the first reliable self-winding movement for wristwatches launched in 1933. They would form the foundation for Rolex's Datejust and Day-Date, respectively introduced in 1945 and 1956, but also importantly for their sports watches, such as the Explorer, Submariner and GMT-Master launched in the mid-1950s.One of its most famous models is the Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, these chronographs are without any doubt amongst the most iconic and coveted of all collectible wristwatches. Other key collectible models include their most complicated vintage watches, including references 8171 and 6062 with triple calendar and moon phase, "Jean Claude Killy" triple date chronograph models and the Submariner, including early "big-crown" models and military-issued variants.
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