Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 51

?25th Anniversary Apollo XI? Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional, Chronometer?, No. 803/999, movement No. 483106955, Ref. ST. 345.0808. Made in a limited edition of 999 examples in 1994. Fine and rare, asymmetric, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, black bezel with tachometer, transparent case back and stainless steel Omega buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integral guard, black bezel with tachometer graduated to 500 UPH, crown and pusher with integral guard, screw-down transparent back with sapphire crystal numbered and engraved: ?Speedmaster ? XXV Apollo XI ? First watch worn on the moon?. D. Black with applied baton indexes, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions. Luminous steel ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 863, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.