Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 47

"Speedmaster Profesional Mark IV" Omega "Speedmaster Professional Mark IV", Automatic, No. R11249, Ref. 176.009. Made in 1973. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, tonneau-shaped, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, 12-hour register, central minute recorder, tachometer, 24 hours with night/day indication, and stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, hooded lugs, screwed-down case back with Speedmaster logo. D. Black with luminous baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 12-hour register, the 24 hours with night/day indication by means of an arrow on an under-disc, 60-minute register by means of a fourth cross-shaped central hand, outer tachometer graduation on a black ring under the crystal and outer 1/5th second scale, aperture for the date. Luminous white "baton" hands. M. Cal. 1040, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 45 mm. Thickness 15 mm.