Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 457

Seamaster Omega, "Seamaster, Automatic," No. 34687672, Ref. ST 176.005. Made circa 1972. 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.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed large inclined bezel, screw-down case back with Seamaster logo, hooded lugs. D. Silvered with applied luminous stainless steel faceted indexes accented by luminous dots, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th second divisions, subsidiary dials for the 12-hour chronograph register and seconds combined with 24-hour night/day indication by arrow on a revolving disc, 60-minute register by central blue tipped jet hand, date aperture, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 500uph. Black luminous baton hands. M. Cal. 1040, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometric index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 49 mm. Thickness 15 mm.