The Collection of a European Nobleman

Geneva, May 11, 2008

LOT 455

De Ville, Rattrapante Omega, ?De Ville, Rattrapante, Co-Axial Chronometer?, movement number 78057155, Ref. 48484031. Sold on June 22, 2006. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, brushed stainless steel wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, date, and a brushed stainless steel deployant Omega clasp. Accompanied by the guarantee and chronometer certificate. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, round pusher with red circle at 10 o`clock for the split-seconds, inclined and stepped bezel, stepped and downturned lugs, transparent back engraved ?Co-Axial Escapement ? Double Column Wheel?, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone guilloché, silvered and gray with applied steel faceted dart indexes and luminous dots, outer minute/ seconds divisions. Three overlapping subsidiary dials on a silver guilloché reserve: the constant seconds indicated on two concentric 30-second arcs, 12-hour and 30-minute registers with applied steel Roman numerals, date aperture between 11 and 12, displaying ?yesterday?s, today?s, and tomorrow?s dates?. Luminous steel alpha hands. Red-tipped split-seconds hand. M. Cal. 3612, C.O.S.C. certified chronometer, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decorations, 38 jewels, co-axial escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, shock absorber, flat balance spring, blued steel double crown wheel for the chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 15 mm.