Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 46

?De Ville - Central Tourbillon? Omega, ?De Ville - Central Tourbillon?, No. 9, Ref. 5930.30.01. Launched in 1994 to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Omega as the world?s first automatic wristwatch with central tourbillon regulator. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman` s chronometer wristwatch with visible central one-minute flying tourbillon regulator and an 18K yellow gold Omega deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped rounded bezel, downturned lugs, crown to set time on the case back, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché-decorated silvered gold plate with blue-painted ?lozenge? hour markers under 2 superimposed and revolving concentric sapphire discs with blue-painted ?lozenge? hands, central aperture for the one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with Omega shaped steel carriage. M. Cal. 1170, C.O.S.C. certified chronometer, ?fausses côtes? and ?oeil-de-perdrix? decoration, 48 jewels, lateral lever escapement with central one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, platinum rotor. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Dial, case and movement signed. Property of a New England Collector