ROLEX REF. 3055 "PICCOLINO" YELLOW GOLD Rolex, "Chronographe, Anti-Magnetique", case No. 45285, Ref. 3055. Made circa 1939. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K yellow gold small-sized wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register and tachometer. | Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces | Geneva, May 15, 2016
ROLEX REF. 3055 "PICCOLINO" YELLOW GOLD Rolex, "Chronographe, Anti-Magnetique", case No. 45285, Ref. 3055. Made circa 1939. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K yellow gold small-sized wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register and tachometer., Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, concave lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer scale. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 69, 10 1/2''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.
