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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 49

De Ville, Rattrapante Omega, ?De Ville, Rattrapante, Co-Axial Chronometer?, case No. 78251199, Ref. 48475031. Made circa 2005. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, date, and a stainless steel Omega deployant clasp. Accompanied by the guarantee, chronometer certificate and box.

C. Three-body, round pusher with red circle at 10 o'clock for the split seconds, inclined and stepped bezel, stepped and downturned lugs, transparent back engraved ?Co-Axial Escapement ? Double Column Wheel?, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color, black and silver with applied steel faceted baton indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions. Three overlapping subsidiary dials on a silver guilloché reserve: the constant seconds indicated on two concentric 30-second arcs, 12-hour and 30-minute registers with applied steel Roman numerals, date aperture between 11 and 12, displaying ?yesterday?s, today?s, and tomorrow?s dates?. Luminous steel alpha hands. Red-tipped split seconds hand. M. Cal. 3612, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decorations, 38 jewels, co-axial escapement, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, shock absorber, flat balance spring, blued steel double crown wheel for the chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 15 mm.