Lot 543

Rolex "Oyster Perpetual Milgauss, Superlative Chronometer officially certified", Case No. V677132, Ref. 116400, Cal. 3131, 40 mm, circa 2008
A remarkable automatic Geneva wristwatch anti-magnetic to 1000 Gauss with personalized hand-engraved steel case and bracelet in the manner of the famous British gun manufacturers
Case: steel, screw back, screwed "Twinlock" winding crown, "Oyster" fliplock steel bracelet. Dial: black, lightning-shaped orange seconds hand, rehaut with Rolex lettering and serial no. Movm.: rotorwind movement, Glucydur screw balance.
For lovers of hunting - a made to order beauty that goes with any Purdey and Holland&Holland etc.
Telecommunications, aviation and aerospace industries, medical imaging, research facilities – to name but a few of the many sectors where scientists, engineers and technicians are exposed to strong magnetic fields on a regular basis. The Oyster Perpetual Milgauss has been purpose-built for these environments. Its name is a combination of "mil" (a thousand), and "gauss", (the unit of magnetic flux density, named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss), and the wristwatch is resistant to a magnetic flux density of 1,000 gauss or tesla. Rolex uses its own parachrome spring and an escapement wheel made of a new paramagnetic material in the Milgauss. Ferromagnetic alloys provide the magnetic shielding protecting the movement. The original Milgauss was mostly sold for its unusual design – not many people needed a watch with all those functions the Milgauss provided. Thus the watch was never a big seller and Rolex discontinued the production in 1986. However, in 2007 Rolex relaunched the Milgauss with an outstanding design in three different styles: stainless steel with a white dial, stainless steel with a black dial and stainless steel with black dial and green glass. Since its comeback the Rolex Milgauss has come to be an extremely popular luxury timekeeper.

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