Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 491

OMEGA REF. 48475031 DE VILLE, RATTRAPANTE Omega, ?De Ville, Rattrapante, Co-Axial Chronometer?, case No. 78250234, Ref. 48475031. Made circa 2005. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel chronometer wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, date, and a stainless steel Omega deployant clasp. Accompanied by an Omega box, Guarantee (now void), Chronometer Certificate and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, round pusher with red circle at 10 o'clock for the split seconds, inclined and stepped bezel, stepped and down-turned lugs, transparent back engraved ?Co-Axial Escapement ? Double Column Wheel?, anti-refl ective sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color, black and silver with applied steel faceted baton indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions. Three overlapping subsidiary dials on a silver guilloché reserve: the constant seconds indicated on two concentric 30-second arcs, 12-hour and 30-minute registers with applied steel Roman numerals, date aperture between 11 and 12, displaying ?yesterday?s, today?s, and tomorrow?s dates?. Luminous steel alpha hands. Red-tipped split seconds hand. M. Cal. 3612, rhodium plated, fausses cotes and oeil-deperdrix decorations, 38 jewels, co-axial escapement, freesprung monometallic balance adjusted to fi ve positions, shock absorber, fl at balance spring, blued steel double crown wheel for the chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 15 mm.