Rolex - Perpetual London | Phillips
  • Manufacturer: Rolex
    Year: 2000
    Reference No: 16520
    Case No: A******
    Model Name: "Zenith" Daytona
    Material: Stainless Steel
    Calibre: Automatic Chronograph Calibre 4030
    Bracelet/Strap: Stainless Steel Oyster Bracelet
    Clasp/Buckle: Stainless Steel Fliplock
    Accessories: Accompanied by Rolex Box, Certificate, Leather Wallet, Booklets, and Tags

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    Rolex

    Swiss • 1905

    Founded 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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Ref. 16520
Terms the London team have debated using to describe this watch include “Time Capsule”, “Preservation Class” and “Museum Grade”. But the watch is best summed up by the fact that our photographer refused to shoot a wrist shot to “keep it as new as possible”. The original hologram is still perfectly aligned, the Rolex cloth around the watch shows one clear circle where it has remained pressed into one position of the sapphire glass for 24 years (until we took it out for inspection) and even the papers felt like we were the first to open them since January of the new millennium. ‘Crisp’, ‘sharp’ and ‘new’ are all words that fall short in front of this incredibly preserved 16520 Zenith Daytona. Full set, matchless condition and impossible to replace. We decided to call this watch “the find me another”.

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