Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 94

Apollo XI Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional - Apollo XI?, Ref. 345.08.02. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, black bezel and 18K yellow gold Omega bracelet with concealed deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, integrated crown and pusher guard, transparent case back engraved: ?FIRST WATCH WORN ON THE MOON - APOLLO XI 1969?, tachometer graduation to 500 UPH on the bezel. D. Champagne with applied gold and black baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12- hour and 30-minute registers. Gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. 861, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of Various Owners