Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 289

Omega - Steel Chrono - Enamel Dial Omega, No. 9379998, case No. 9015718. Made in 1937. Very fine and rare, stainless steel Staybrite wristwatch with chronograph, register, olive button for stop and go and co-axial button for return to zero.

c. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs, return-to-zero chronograph function via a co-axial pusher in the crown. d. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, sunk subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track with black Arabic five minute markers. Blued steel Breguet hands. m. Cal. 33.3 CHRO, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.