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New York, Dec 11, 2008

LOT 36

Steel Chronograph with Tachometer Omega Geneve. Ref. 2393/2. Made circa 1940. An unusual stainless steel with olive button chronograph, 30-minute register and tachometer wristwatch.

C. Three-body, brushed with polished bezel, straight faceted lugs. D. Pink with silvered alternate Arabic numerals and baton markers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, tachometer graduated to 700 units/hour, subsidiary guilloché dials for the constant seconds and the 30-minute register, inner red pulsations and blue telemeter scales. Gilt feuille hands. M. Cal. 33.3 CHRO T5 PC, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, shock-protected monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37.5 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.