Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Nov 11, 2007

LOT 18

?25th Anniversary APOLLO XI? Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional, Chronometer?, No. 179/500, movement No. 48311408, Ref. BC 348.0062. Made in a limited edition of 500 examples in 1994. Very fine and rare, asymmetric, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, black bezel with tachometer, 18K white gold Omega link bracelet with Omega deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and certificate.

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 Professional ? Limited Edition?. D. Silver with applied silver and black 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. 864, 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. Approx. overall length: 180 mm.