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AN HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT AND VERY EARLY WATERPROOF ROLEX OYSTER WRISTWATCH WORN BY MERCEDES GLEITZE DURING HER CELEBRATED VINDICATION CHANNEL SWIM, 21st OCTOBER 1927
Model: Oyster Precision, No.34075, 1926.
circular pink gilt dial signed Rolex Precision, black Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, black hands, 17-jewel nickel finished Rolex Precision movement with patented superbalance, 9ct. gold octagonal case with wire lugs, milled bezel, screw down Oyster Patent winding crown, screw down milled edge back inscribed Miss M. Gleitze. The Companion "Oyster". Vindication Channel Swim. October 21st. 1927. Glasgow import marks for 1926, 31mm x 27mm.
Provenance: Miss Mercedes Gleitze, London. Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited: Rolex 50th Anniversary Reception, Greenwich,
22nd September 1976.
Model: Oyster Precision, No.34075, 1926.
circular pink gilt dial signed Rolex Precision, black Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, black hands, 17-jewel nickel finished Rolex Precision movement with patented superbalance, 9ct. gold octagonal case with wire lugs, milled bezel, screw down Oyster Patent winding crown, screw down milled edge back inscribed Miss M. Gleitze. The Companion "Oyster". Vindication Channel Swim. October 21st. 1927. Glasgow import marks for 1926, 31mm x 27mm.
Provenance: Miss Mercedes Gleitze, London. Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited: Rolex 50th Anniversary Reception, Greenwich,
22nd September 1976.