Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 180

Omega - White Gold Speedmaster Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional,? No. 335/500, No. 48311551. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in 1994. Fine and rare, asymmetric, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, black bezel with tachometer, transparent back and an 18K white gold Omega bracelet with deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, integral crown and pusher guards, black bezel with tachometer graduated to 500 UPH, screwed-down transparent back numbered and engraved: ?Speedmaster Professional ? Limited Edition,? band engraved: Apollo XI 1969 ? 1994. D. Satine silver with painted luminous baton indexes with black inlay, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds division. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 864, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes decoration, l7 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx overall length 185 mm.