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Rolex
Ref. 116748
GMT-II
A fine and very rare yellow gold, sapphire and diamond-set dual time wristwatch with sweep centre seconds, date, bracelet, guarantee and fitted presentation box
- Estimate
- HK$350,000 - 550,000
Lot Details
- Manufacturer
- Rolex
- Year
- Circa 2011
- Reference No
- 116748
- Case No
- Z649106
- Model Name
- GMT-II
- Material
- 18k yellow gold, diamonds and sapphires
- Calibre
- Automatic
- Bracelet/Strap
- 18k yellow gold <em>Rolex Oyster </em>bracelet, 190 mm. maximum length
- Clasp/Buckle
- 18k yellow gold <em>Rolex</em> folding twinlock deployant clasp
- Dimensions
- 40 mm. diameter
- Signed
- <em>Case, dial and movement signed </em>
- Accessories
- With<em> Rolex </em>Attestation de Chronometre dated October 2011, product literature, sales tag, leather wallet, fitted presentation box and outer packaging.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
This GMT-Master II is fitted with baguette sapphires and diamonds the bezel, a particularly rare variant as the sapphires are a rich blue hue that seem almost onyx at first glance. Offered as a full set with guarantee, sales tag, fitted presentation box and outer packaging, this watch is kept in excellent and original condition. The present lot is from the first generation of the diamond-set GMT II as the lugs are not set with diamonds.
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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