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Rolex
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 CHF
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Description
- A stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with register, tachometer and telemeterOyster, circa 1940, ref.3525
- diameter 35mm.
nickel lever movement, 17 jewels, mono-metallic compensation balance, silvered dial, Arabic and baton numerals, two engine turned subsidiary dials for constant seconds and 30-minute register, outer scales calibrated for tachometer and telemeter, circular Oyster case with screw-down crown and case back, case, dial and movement signed
Catalogue Note
Reference 3525 was one of Rolex's earliest Oyster cased chronographs and remains amongst the most popular with collectors. Production of the reference seems to have begun either at the very end of the 1930s or beginning of the 1940s. For a discussion of the reference and a variety of other examples, see Gobbi, P., I Chronografi Rolex - La Leggenda, Pucci Papaleo Editore, pp. 162-192. For a copy of an original advertisement by Rolex featuring reference 3525, see Patrizzi Collecting Rolex Wristwatches, p.308.