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LOT 375

?The Discovery of the New Land? Omega, Swiss, No. 11061065. Produced in the 1950s. Fine and very rare, square, eight-day going, gilt brass desk clock with unusual dial.

C. brushed side panels, hinged back door, gilt bun feet. D. painted on black background, ships, mermaids and whales for the hour numerals, borders with a map, in a lower right corner a sailor?s wife with a handkerchief in her hand, to the left two sailors on just discovered land raising the cross. Gilt pierced hands. M. Cal. 45 mm (20???), gilt brass, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 110 x 110 mm.