Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 441

Pink Gold, ?Chronograph with Tachometer and Telemeter? Omega, No. 11497247, case No. 10863997, Ref. 2279. Made circa 1947. Fine, 18K pink gold gentleman`s wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter and a gold-plated Omega buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Brushed silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outer blue telemeter graduation and outermost black tachometer graduated to 750 unite/hour. Subsidiary guilloché dials for the constant seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Pink gold ?feuille? hands. M. Cal. 27 CHRO C12, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of a South American Gentleman