Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 342

OMEGA REF. 2287 CHRONOGRAPH, STEEL Omega, No. 9600244, Ref. 2287-1. Made circa 1940. Fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Omega buckle.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, screw down case back, stepped bezel, lapidated lugs. D. Matte silver with painted luminous Arabic numerals, outer tachometer scale and 1/5th second track with 5-minute/ seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. 27 CHRO C12 T1PC, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, shock absorber, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of an Omega Collector