OMEGAMANIA

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Apr 15, 2007

LOT 44

Omega, ?Usine de Genève?, No. 6379488, case No. 6920322, Ref. 4900/4906. Sold on August 25, 1928. Very fine, rare and very slim, stirrup-shaped, 18K yellow gold and enamel Art Deco keyless smoking watch. This watch is sold with box, Certificate of Authenticity and a 2-year Omega guarantee.

C. Two-body, rounded bezel with a champlevé enamel inlay of dark blue flowers and green leaves on the top and surrounded at each side by a chased gold flower and with an inlaid black enamel line at the case sides, back decorated with engine-turned checkerboard pattern, band and bowdecorated to match, with an extended rectangular en suite insert. Gilt bowwith black enamel inlay. D. Two-tone silvered with painted black ?Greek? numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel ?cathedral? hands. M. Fabriqué à Genève, Cal. 35 ML, rhodium-plated, 16 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, cut bimetallic compensation, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41.8 x 45 mm. Thickness 7.8 mm. Property of an Italian Collector