Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 178

Omega Speedmaster Automatic Omega "Speedmaster Automatic,? No. 39945367, Ref. 176.0016. Made in the late 1970s. Fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with day & date, round button chronograph, tachometer, central 60-minute register, 12-hour register, night/day indication with 24 hours, and stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back with the embossed ?Seamaster? logo, tachometer scale graduated to 500 UPH reverse-painted on the sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor blue and black with luminous baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 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 central white jet hand, apertures for the day and date. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 1045, copper-color, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 43 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx. overall length 210 mm.