Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 333

OMEGA, SWISS MONTRE DE TIR, SHOOTING PRIZE WATCH Omega, movement No. 7402523, case No. 8190623, retailed by Emilio Somazzi, Lugano. Case signed L. Vassigli. Specially made for the ?Gara di Tiro fra le Guardie Federali di Confine, IV Circondario? ? or Federal Shooting Exhibition. Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, silver, keyless pocket watch with high-relief decoration.

C. Four-body , ?demi-bassine?, solid, the back cover cast with the fi gure of a rifl eman dressed in uniform and surrounded by the inscription, cloverleaf border, bezel and band decorated to match. Hinged silver cuvette engraved with the Omega prize medals. D. White enamel with painted dauphine numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 40.6L.T2.17P, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, eccentric cam micrometer regulator. Dial, movement and cuvette signed. Diam. 51 mm.