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Rolex
Ref. 9287
A very rare and attractive platinum and diamond set bracelet watch with concealed dial, retailed by Serpico y Laino
- Estimate
- CHF20,000 - 30,000
CHF47,500
Lot Details
- Manufacturer
- Rolex
- Year
- 1943
- Reference No
- 9287
- Case No
- 236'362
- Material
- Platinum and diamonds
- Calibre
- Manual, 282
- Bracelet/Strap
- Platinum and diamond set
- Clasp/Buckle
- Concealed clasp
- Dimensions
- 19mm. Diameter
- Signed
- <em>Case, dial and movement signed by the maker, dial further signed by the retailer</em>
- Accessories
- <em>Rolex</em> fitted presentation box
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Rolex, best known for its sports and water resistant Oyster models also made in very limited quantities fine and elegant jewelled watches. The present example is an outstanding bracelet watch cased in platinum and lavishly set with diamonds. In addition, the watch also bears the famous retailers signature Serpico y Laino, Rolex’s retailer in Caracas giving the present lot a double stamp of approval.Presented in extremely well preserved original condition, this bracelet watch encompasses everything the collector of vintage, lavishly set jewelled watches could ask for.
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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