Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 284

Stainless Steel Chronograph Omega, No. 9380245, Ref. 857. Made circa 1940. Fine and very rare, stainless steel Staybrite wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, lapidated bezel, concave lugs, 2 pushers (reset on the winding crown). D. Silver with printed Arabic numerals, guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds track with black Arabic five minute numerals, outer telemeter scale, concentric spiral tachometer scale. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. CHRO 33.3, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.