Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 20

Omega Speedmaster Professional Omega, "Speedmaster, Professional", movement No. 45254760, Ref. 145022. Made circa 1982. Fine, assymmetric, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer, a stainless steel Omega buckle, and a modern Omega box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, anti-magnetic iron dust cover, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 UPH, lyre lugs, screweddown case back embossed with the Seahorse Medallion and engraved: The First Watch Worn On The Moon, Flight-Qualified By Nasa For All Manned Space Missions. 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, index regulator with fine adjusting screw. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.