Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 157

?1938 - The Pilot?s Watch? Omega, ?Museum Collection?, ?1938 - The Pilot?s Watch?, No. 2230/4938, Ref. ST 167.2000. Collector`s Series Number One from the Museum Collection. Made in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman` s wristwatch with a stainless steel Omega buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate, and an extended leather strap.

C. Three-body, polished, bezel with serrated edges, down-turned lugs, case back numbered and engraved: ?1938, The Omega Museum Collection, The Pilot´s Watch, Collector`s Series No. One?, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost revolving silvered ring for flight duration timing, subsidiary seconds dial. Luminous ?skeletonized? hands. M. Cal. 2200, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 12 mm.