Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 456

Omega, ?Speedmaster?, movement No. 19584740, Ref. CK 2998. Made in 1962. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, waterresistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, black bezel with tachometer graduated to 500 UPH and a stainless steel Omega bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a service paper and a recent Omega box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back engraved with Speedmaster logo, hesalite crystal. D. Black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, applied steel Omega logo at 12. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 321, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 165 mm.