Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 37

Pair of F.I.C. Olympic Timekeepers Omega, Swiss, ?Federazione Italiana Cronometristi?, No. 2110797 & No. 3297935. Made for timing Olympic events, in the late 1950's. Fine and rare, pair of chromed 30-second split-seconds stopwatches with instantaneous 30-minute registers. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, ?bassine?, polished, button at 1 for start/stop, at 11 for the split-seconds, return-to-zero by depressing the crown. Stainless steel cuvette. D. White with the F.I.C. and Olympic logos, concentric seconds and fifths of a second tracks with outer black Arabic numerals 1-30 and inner red numerals 30-60, subsidiary 30-minute register. Blued steel and red hands. M. 24???, Cal. 1210, frosted gilt, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, high frequency monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 65 mm.