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Lot 39Y
Rolex. Rare chronographe bracelet en acier mouvement mecanique
Rolex. A rare stainless steel manual wind chronograph wristwatch Ref: 2508, Circa 1936
26 May 2023, 14:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche€10,000 - €15,000
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Rolex. Rare chronographe bracelet en acier mouvement mecanique
Rolex. A rare stainless steel manual wind chronograph wristwatch
Reference: 2508
Date: Circa 1936
Movement: Jewelled manual wind, column wheel chronograph
Dial: Silvered, black Arabic numeral hour markers, black inner 1/5th second divisions with 5 minute markers, blue outer telemetre and tachymetre scale, subsidiary dials at 3 and 6 for seconds and 30 minute recording, blued steel leaf hands, centre chronograph second
Case: Brushed and polished round, snap on back inside stamped S.A.R., crown flanked by twin olive form buttons, No.037673
Strap/Bracelet: Burgundy alligator leather
Buckle/Clasp: Steel buckle
Signed: Case, dial & movement
Size: 35mm
Reference: 2508
Date: Circa 1936
Movement: Jewelled manual wind, column wheel chronograph
Dial: Silvered, black Arabic numeral hour markers, black inner 1/5th second divisions with 5 minute markers, blue outer telemetre and tachymetre scale, subsidiary dials at 3 and 6 for seconds and 30 minute recording, blued steel leaf hands, centre chronograph second
Case: Brushed and polished round, snap on back inside stamped S.A.R., crown flanked by twin olive form buttons, No.037673
Strap/Bracelet: Burgundy alligator leather
Buckle/Clasp: Steel buckle
Signed: Case, dial & movement
Size: 35mm
Footnotes
The reference 2508, introduced in the mid-1930s, was the first chronograph to feature two buttons and two registers. Originally the chronograph buttons were olive formed, as with the current lot, and then later fitted with rectangular ones