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ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL DATEJUST NO. 97, REF. 4467 MANUFACTURED IN 1945 AN EARLY GOLD SELF-WINDING...

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ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL DATEJUST NO. 97, REF. 4467 MANUFACTURED IN 1945 AN EARLY GOLD SELF-WINDING...
ROLEX
OYSTER PERPETUAL DATEJUST NO. 97, REF. 4467 MANUFACTURED IN 1945
AN EARLY GOLD SELF-WINDING CENTER-SECONDS WRISTWATCH WITH DATE, BOX AND PAPERS
18K, NICKEL LEVER MOVEMENT, SUPERBALANCE, WHITE DIAL, APPLIED FACETED LOZENGE NUMERALS, aperture for date, SCREW-DOWN CROWN AND
BACK, CIRCULAR CASE WITH
REEDED BEZEL, BACK WITH
ENGRAVED COAT-OF-ARMS
SIGNED ON MOVEMENT,
CASE AND DIAL,
NUMBERED 97 ON CASE
DIAMETER 36 MM
CHF 8,000-10,000
$ 5,400-6,600
This WATCH IS ACCOMPANIED
BY ITS ORIGINAL BOX, AS WELL AS ITS RATING CERTIFICATE, MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION
AND WARRANTY.
SHORTLY BEFORE THE END
OF WWII, HANS WILSDORF, FOUNDER OF ROLEX, WAS PREPARING THE LAUNCH OF
A NEW MODEL, THE "DATEJUST."
IT WOULD THEN BECOME THE WORLD'S FIRST AUTOMATIC CHRONOMETER with date.
THE FIRST 100 MODELS WERE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH AN AD IN THE NEWSPAPER "LA SUISSE" AT
A PRICE OF SFR 1000, A HIGH PRICE AT THE TIME.
THE FUTURE OWNERS
WOULD THEN SEND IN
EITHER THEIR INITIALS OR
COAT-OF-ARMS THAT WOULD THEN BE ENGRAVED ON
THE CASEBACK. THESE
MODELS ALSO FEATURE
A NUMBER BETWEEN THE
LUGS, THIS PARTICULAR ONE
BEARING NUMBER 097.
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