Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 134

OMEGA REF. 2998 SPEEDMASTER Omega, Speedmaster, No. 18946947, Ref. 2998-5. Made circa 1962. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, screw down case back engraved with the Seahorse Medallion and: David T. Clair from Dad Dec. 7, 1962, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 UPH. D. Black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel alpha hands. M. Cal. 321, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 13 mm.