Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Nov 11, 2007

LOT 132

Apollo XI Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional?, No. 48306833, Ref. ST 345.0808. Made in 1992. Very rare and fine, asymmetric, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with transparent back, round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integral guard, transparent screwed-down case back engraved ?Speedmaster, Apollo XI, First Watch Worn on the Moon?, tachometer graduation on the black bezel. D. Black with luminous baton indexes, outer minute and fifth second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30- minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 863, gilt, fausses cotes decoration, 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 mm. Approx. overall length 180 mm.