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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 417

Apollo XI Omega, "Speedmaster Professional, Apollo XI", No. 949, movement No. 29117638, Ref. 145022-69. Made in 1969. Fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer. Accompanied by a modern Omega box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, dust cover, screwed-down case back engraved: Apollo XI 1969 The First Watch Worn On The Moon, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 UPH, lyre lugs, hesalite crystal. D. Champagne with applied yellow gold and black inlay indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary sunk guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Yellow gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. 861, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.