Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 260

Omega, "Seamaster, Automatic", movement No. 35594199, Ref. ST 176.005. Made in the 1970s. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 60-minute registers, 24-hour indication, date, and a stainless steel Omega "shark" bracelet "a petit mailles".

C. Two-body, solid, polished, large inclined bezel, screwed-down case back with Seamaster logo. D. Blue with applied luminous stainless steel faceted indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 12- hour register, the 24-hour with night/day indication by arrow on a revolving disc, 60-minute register by central orange ?jet? hand, date aperture, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 500uph. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal. 1040, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometric index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 49 mm. Thickness 16 mm. Property of Various Owners