Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 214

So-called ?Holy Grail? Omega, ?Speedmaster, Automatic?, movement No. 48231971, Ref. ST376.0822. Made in 800 examples circa 1987. Fine and very rare, asymmetric, self-winding, water resistant, stainless steel wristwatch, round button chronograph, central minute recorder, day-date, 24 hour indication, tachometer and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a modern Omega box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, black bezel with tachometer scale to 500uph, lyre lugs, crown and pushers with integral guard, screwed-down case back with logo. D. Black with luminous painted baton indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th second divisions, subsidiary dials for the constant seconds, the 12-hour and the 24-hour registers, 60-minute register by central white jet hand, day and date apertures. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 1045, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 48 mm. Thickness 16 mm.