Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 10

Omega 1951 Cosmic no. 1234 Omega, ?Cosmic?, No. 1234/1951, case No. 58146759, Ref. BG 156.2001. Collector`s Series Number Two from the Museum Collection. Made in 2001. Fine and rare, square, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with triple date, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Omega buckle. Accompanied by a guarantee (now void), certificate and booklets.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, pushers in the band, stylized straight lugs, back numbered and engraved: ?1951, The Omega Museum Collection, COSMIC, Collector`s Series Number Two?, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied pink gold baton, dagger and pyramid indexes, subsidiary dial for the seconds and aperture for the moon phases at 6, apertures for the day of the week, the month, and the phases of the moon, outermost graduation with pink gold Arabic numerals for the date. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 2601, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 33.5 x 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm.