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New York, Dec 11, 2008

LOT 494

Omega, "Seamaster, Automatic,"No. 35594416, Ref. ST 176.005. Made in the 1970?s. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 60- minute registers, 24-hour indication, date and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, large inclined bezel, screwed-down case back with Seamaster logo, hooded lugs. D. Blue with applied luminous stainless steel faceted indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 12- hour register, the 24-hour with night/day indication by arrow on a revolving disc, 60-minute register by central orange jet hand, date aperture, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 500uph. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal. 1040, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometric index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 49 mm. Thickness 16 mm.