Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 333

The Pilot?s Watch 1938 Omega, No. 2337/4938, Ref. ST 167.2000. Collector?s Series Number One from the Museum Collection. Made in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with Omega buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee, certificate and special long and wide leather arm strap. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bezel with serrated edges, down turned straight lugs, back numbered and engraved: ?1938, The Omega Museum Collection, The Pilot?s Watch, Collector?s Series No. One,? sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost revolving silvered ring for flight duration timing, subsidiary seconds. Luminous skeletonized hands. M. Cal. 2200, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.