ROLEX "JEAN CLAUDE KILLY" DATO COMPAX: A FINE AND RARE 18CT GOLD TRIPLE CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH
with manual wind 17-jewel Valjoux movement, Anti-Magnetic model, the champagne dial with gold baton markers and Arabic numerals, gilt hands, black outer 1/5th second divisions with Arabic numeral 5 minute markers and blue outer calendar markers, subsidiary dials at 3,6 and 9 for seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour recording, day and month apertures below 12, central chronograph hand and red tipped arrow calendar hand, screw-down case back,
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£50,000 - £70,000
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Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
crown flanked by twin pushers and quick-set buttons at 8 and 10, ref. 6036, circa 1950's, the case c.36mm diam., on a brown leather strap
Provenance: From a private South-West collection.
Note: From 1947 until 1962 Rolex produced four distinct Oyster Dato Compax models: References 4767, 5036, 6036 and 6236. The watches were nicknamed "Jean Claude Killy" after the three-time Olympic champion was reportedly seen wearing a Reference 6036.