Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 4

OMEGA, SO-CALLED ?BULLHEAD? Omega, ?Seamaster?, Ref. ST 146.011. Made circa 1970. Very rare, fine and unusual, water-resistant, asymmetric, stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, date, 30-minute register, inner revolving bezel and a stainless steel Omega buckle.

C. Two-body, massive, shield-shaped, brushed and polished, rounded corners, crown at 6 to adjust the inner revolving bezel graduated for decompression timing, winding crown and chronograph pushers at 12, screw-down back. D. Champagne with luminous square indexes, outer fi ve minute and 1/5 second timing scale, outermost revolving bezel with Arabic fi ve minutes, subsidiary seconds, threecolor 30-minute register, and date aperture. Luminous white ?baton? hands, orange hands for the chronograph. M. Cal. 930, copper colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41.5 x 42 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.