Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 232

OMEGA CHRONOGRAPH CAL 33.3 STEEL Omega, movement No. 9389124, case No. 9979612. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, stainless steel "Staybrite" wristwatch with olive shaped button chronograph, register, pulsometer, telemeter and tachometer.

CHF 7,000 - 9,000

HKD 58,000 - 74,000 / USD 7,500 - 9,500

Three-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register, inner brown telemeter scale, white pulsometer scale outer minute/seconds track, outermost white tachometer scale. Yellow feuille hands. Cal. 33.3 CHRO, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bi-metallic balance spring, selfcompensating blued Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-19

Good

Dent(s)

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-10-01

Good

Patinated

HANDS Original

Notes

DIAM. 38 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.