Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 146

?1948 - The Centenary Watch? Omega ?Museum Collection?, No. 0290/1948, Ref. BG 167.2004. Collector`s Series Number Five from the Museum Collection. Made in 2004. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman´s chronometer wristwatch with co-axial escapement and an 18K pink gold Omega buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, curved lugs, back numbered and engraved: ?1948, The Omega Museum Collection, The Centenary Watch, Collector`s Series Number Five?, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone copper-colored with applied pink gold faceted lozenge indexes on a plain outer reserve, inner minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds. Pink gold ?dauphine? hands. M. Cal. 2202, C.O.S.C. certified, rhodium-plated, 33 jewels, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, first generation co-axial escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10.5 mm.