Lot 90 · Important Watches
a rare stainless steel automatic centre seconds wristwatch with date bracelet and rolex patent back made for comexref 1665 case 6221315 comex sea-dweller 2170 circa 1980
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- Estimate
- CHF 40,000–CHF 60,000 hammer ≈ $43,116–$64,674
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Watches, Geneva · 13 May 2015
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4359453
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Rolex, a rare stainless steel automatic centre seconds wristwatch with date bracelet and rolex patent back made for comexref 1665 case 6221315 comex sea-dweller 2170 circa 1980. Sotheby's, 13 May 2015, lot 90. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4359453.
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Rolex, a rare stainless steel automatic centre seconds wristwatch with date bracelet and rolex patent back made for comexref 1665 case 6221315 comex sea-dweller 2170 circa 1980. Sotheby's, 13 May 2015, lot 90. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4359453.
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|---|---|---|---|
| a mahogany boxed marine chronometer no 5028 circa 1830 | — | CHF 15,000–CHF 20,000 | |
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.