Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 315

Omega Speedmaster Professional Mark III Omega, Speedmaster Professional Mark III, Automatic, Ref. ST 176.0002. Made circa 1972. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, 12-hour register, central minute recorder, tachometer, 24-hours with night/day indication, and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Omega pouch and a service invoice dated 08, 27, 2009. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, brushed, screwed-down case back with engraved ?Seamaster? logo, hooded lugs. D. Satiné blue with applied faceted black painted indexes and luminous dots, inner Arabic five minutes, outer minute/ fifth second scale, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 500UPH, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour register, the 24 hours with night/day indication by means of an arrow on a revolving disc, 60-minute register by means of a orange and black central jet hand, aperture for the date. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 1040, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 52 mm. Thickness 16 mm.