Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 217

Omega - Steel - Speedmaster Professional Omega, No. 77014508, Ref. 145.0022 / 345.0022. Made circa 2002. Fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, black bezel with tachometer graduation to 500 UPH and a stainless steel Omega buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integrated guard, antimagnetic protection cap,screw-down case back with Speedmaster logo and engraved: ?Flight-Qualified By NASA For All Manned Space Missions ? The First Watch Worn On The Moon?. D. Black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 1861, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.