Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 128

OMEGA REF. 167.2000, THE PILOT?S WATCH Omega, No. 0499/4938, Ref. ST 167.2000. Collector?s Series Number One from the Museum Collection, Limited Reedition of the 1938 Pilot?s Watch . Made in 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with a stainless steel Omega buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished, bezel with serrated edges, downturned straight lugs, back numbered and engraved: 1938, The Omega Museum Collection, The Pilot?s Watch, Collector?s Series No. One, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost revolving silvered ring for fl ight duration timing, subsidiary seconds dial. Luminous skeletonized hands. M. Cal. 2200, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12 mm.