Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 352

OMEGA REF. 345.0808 SPEEDMASTER PROFESSIONAL Omega, Speedmaster Professional, movement No. 48269123, Ref. ST 345.0808. Made in a numbered series starting in 1980. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with transparent back, round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee card, certificate of authenticity, booklet, a brown and black suede baseball cap, various Kennedy Space Center items and 3 extra links.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integral guard, transparent screw down case back engraved ?Speedmaster, Apollo XI, First Watch Worn on the Moon,? tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 UPH. D. Black with luminous baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 863, copper color, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Approx. overall length 190 mm plus 3 links Property of an Omega Collector