Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 28

?Speedmaster - Michael Schumacher? Omega, "Speedmaster - Michael Schumacher?, Automatic, Chronograph, Chronometer," No. 0277/ 6000. Made in a limited edition of 6000 pieces in 2003 to commemorate Michael Schumacher's sixth Formula One World Championship Title. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman` s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, steel bezel with tachometer graduation and a stainless steel Omega bracelet with concealed deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, asymmetric, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, integral crown and pusher guard, case back engraved with the Speedmaster logo and "Michael Schumacher, the Legend" in red, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 300 units per hour, lapidated lugs. D. Bicolor white and black with applied steel baton indexes, outer luminous dots and 1/5th seconds track in red, aperture for the date at 6, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 1151, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.