Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 26

Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional?. Production of the Speedmaster started in 1957. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer, with black bezel and a stainless steel Omega bracelet.

C. three-body, polished and brushed, engraved screwed-down case back: ?Flight qualified by NASA for all manned space missions - The first watch worn on the moon?, and the Speedmaster logo, dust protecting cap, tachometer graduation on the bezel, stylized lapidated lugs. D. black with tritium-coated indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers. ?Skeleton? tritium-coated hands. M. Cal. 861, copper-colored, 17 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm.