Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 53

?Gemini XI, Speedmaster Professional? Omega, No. 39920651, Ref. ST 145.022. Made in 1997 to commemorate the Gemini XI Mission, September 12 to September 15, 1966 by Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with roundbutton chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, black bezel with tachometer and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet. Case back engraved: ?Omega Speedmaster ? First Watch Worn On The Moon, Flight-Qualified by Nasa for all Manned Space Missions.?

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integral guard, stainless steel bezel with inserted black tachometer ring graduated to 500 UPH. D. Matte black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, blue Gemini XI crest at 9. Luminous white ?baton? hands, luminous white hand for the central seconds. M. Cal. 861, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.