Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 215

?Skeletonized Prototype? Lemania, Made as a prototype in the late 1970s. Fine, rare and unusual, oversized, 18K yellow gold skeletonized pocket watch with splitseconds chronograph and 30-minute register.

HKD 50,000 - 70,000

USD 6,500 - 9,000 / EUR 5,000 - 7,000

Sold: HKD 82,600

C. Three-body, massive, ?pomme?, engine-turned bezel, transparent back, co-axial start-stop in the crown, olive pusher in the band at 11, sapphire crystals. D. Engraved blackened gold chapter ring with radial Roman numerals, inner gold chapter ring with black five-minute/seconds Arabic numerals and 1/5th second divisions. Black hands. M. Cal. 1130 S, skeletonized, gilt brass and brushed steel, fully chased and engraved, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Visible brushed steel chronograph work on the back plate. Diam. 69 mm. Thickness 23.5 mm. Property of an Swiss Gentleman


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2

Very good

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

The present watch is one of a series of prototypes made by Lemania for Omega. For an example of the watch as commercialized by Omega, see Antiquorum?s Omegamania sale, April 15, 2007, lot 291.