ROLEX MILGAUSS Silver Dial Ref. 1019, Double Punched Papers, Invoice, Service Invoice, Sold 1971
Serial # 1994959
Circa: 1971
DIAL: Silver dial, applied luminous baton hour markers, luminous dots, silver hour/minutes hands with luminous center, center seconds hand with red triangle. T SWISS T at the bottom.
CASE: 38mm, stainless steel with smooth bezel, anti-magnetic back cover and acrylic glass
MOVEMENT: Caliber 1560, Self-winding mechanical chronometer movement with 26 jewels, SCOC
BRACELET: Rolex Oyster stainless steel 'folded' bracelet
CONDITION REPORT: All original, the dial & hands are mint and in stunning condition. The case has been polished, but overall the watch is in good condition.
This watch comes with its double punched papers, both dated & stamped, original invoice also dated and a later service invoice.
NOTES:
In order to cope with the rise in electromagnetic fields in the workplace and the need for a watch that would remain precise in these conditions, Rolex released the Oyster Perpetual Chronometer MILGAUSS Ref. 6541 in the mid 1950’s. This model resembled the Submariner and had a rotating bezel.
The Milgauss could still work normally when the electromagnetism was up to 1000 Gauss, therefore its name. The name is a combination of the words mille (1000) and Gauss, which is the unit of measurement of a magnetic field. It is named after German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
In 1960, the second generation of Milgauss, Oyster Perpetual Milgauss Ref. 1019, was officially unveiled with a smooth bezel, no longer the rotating one and the hour markers were changed into rectangular metal markers, the second hand also gave up Lightening Bolt and used linear hand, but it still had a red arrow. The case diameter of 1019 Milgauss was 38mm, not only 1019 Milgauss could be anti-magnetic to 1000 Gauss, but it was also water resistant to 50m. Milgauss 1019 was discontinued in the late 80's, which marked the end of production of the Milgauss series for several decades to come. |