Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 36

Speedmaster Professional Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional?, Ref. 145.022. Made in 1971. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integrated guard, stainless steel bezel with inserted black tachometer ring graduated to 500 UPH, case back engraved: ?Omega Speedmaster ? First Watch Worn On The Moon - Flight-Qualified by Nasa for all Manned Space Missions?. D. Matte black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white ?baton? hands, luminous white hand for the central seconds. M. Cal. 861, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of Various Owners