Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 21

Omega Two Olympic Timekeepers Omega, Swiss, No. 1140941 & No. 2164694. Made for timing Olympic events in the 1950s and 60s. Fine and rare, chromed 30-second split-seconds stopwatch with instantaneous 30-minute registers and a water-resistant black painted 30-second stopwatch with progressive 15-minute register. Accompanied by red plastic Omega cases. To be sold without reserve

A. 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, 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 gilt hands. M. 24???, Cal. 1210, frosted gilt, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, high frequency monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 65 mm. B. C. Two-body, black painted, screw-down steel back. D. Two-tone black and silver, outer seconds numerals 1-30, and fifths of a seconds divisions on a raised reserve, inner seconds numerals 31-60, subsidiary 15-minute register at 12. White dart hands. M. Cal. 9001A, rhodium-plated, 7 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, high frequency monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 54 mm.