Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 72

Omega Speedmaster Apollo XI , 25th Anniversary ? Display Back Omega, "Speedmaster Professional - Apollo XI ? 1969-1994," movement No. 48308133, Ref. 3592.50.00. Made in 1994 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo XI mission to the moon, sold on December 12, 1994. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer bezel. Accompanied by an Omega box, guarantee and instruction manual. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, transparent screwed-down case back with Apollo XI moon watch dedication, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 units per hour, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous baton indexes, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 863, gilt brass, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.