Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 69

Big Blue Seamaster 120 Omega, "Seamaster, Automatic, 120m / 400ft," No. 34254147, Ref. ST 176.004. Made in 1974. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, central minute counter, 24-hour indication, date and a stainless steel Omega bracelet ?à petites mailles? with slip-in clasp. Accompanied by a spare dial with hands and an Omega link bracelet. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, brushed, unidirectional revolving graduated midnight blue bezel for decompression timing, screweddown case back and crown. D. Blue with luminous painted indexes, outer minute divisions, outermost Arabic 5 minute/seconds markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 12-hour recorder, 60-minute register by luminous central orange "arrow" hand, the 24-hour indication by arrow on a revolving disc, aperture for the date. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal. 104, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 44 x 52 mm. Thickness 16,5 mm.