Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...
Geneva, Mar 29, 2009
LOT 420
Speedmaster Professional Omega, "Speedmaster, Professional", movement No. 45581299, Ref. 145022. Made circa 1980. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet. Accompanied by a modern Omega box. To be sold without reserve
CHF 2,000 - 3,000
USD 1,700 - 2,600 / EUR 1,300 - 2,000
Sold: CHF 1,680
C. Three-body, polished and brushed, anti-magnetic iron dust cover, screwed-down case back engraved with the Seahorse Medallion and The First Watch worn On The Moon, Flight-Qualified By Nasa For All Manned Space Missions, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 UPH, lyre lugs, hesalite crystal. D. Black with luminous baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary sunk guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 861, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 175 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Notes
The Speedmaster Apollo XI 1969, the "first watch worn on the moon,? was created to commemorate the most important event of modern history. This model was launched in autumn 1969. Twenty-eight watches in this series bore the inscription ?To mark man's conquest of space with time, through time, on time? along with the receiver?s name, and were presented to each of the astronauts then active, as well as to President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew, at a gala dinner on November 25, 1969 in Houston. The remaining watches in the series bore the inscription ?Omega Speedmaster - Apollo XI 1969 - The First Watch Worn on the Moon?.