OMEGAMANIA

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

LOT 44

?SMOKING WATCH?

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.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

EUR 3,800 - 5,000 / USD 5,000 - 6,500

Sold: CHF 21,240

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


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-16

Good

Rusted

Movement: 2

Very good

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

The ?Usine de Genève? was Omega?s precision workshop based in Geneva. Many of the firm?s most precise movements were made there. Cal. 35 ML M = Thin L = Lépine This watch is illustrated in Omegamania, by Marco Richon, Chap. 10, p. 694.