Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 292

OMEGA DELUXE FLIGHTMASTER FIRST GENERATION ONLY 200 PIECES MADE YELLOW GOLD Omega, "flightmaster", No. 31631019, Ref. 145.013 / BA 345.801. Made in 200 examples in 1971. Very fine and exceptionally rare, two-time-zone, water-resistant, heavy 18K yellow gold aviator`s wristwatch with 4 hands and 3 crowns, round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers and 24-hour day and night indication and the original 18K yellow gold Omega bracelet with deployant clasp, Ref. 345.0801.

Two-body, massive, polished and brushed, screw-down back with "flightmaster" logo, hooded lugs. Crowns at 3 for time setting, between 8 and 9 for revolving minute ring, and between 10 and 11 for second time-zone, sapphire crystal. Gold with gold and black baton indexes, outer seconds/minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, outer revolving ring with black Arabic five-minute markers for the 60 minutes, subsidiary dials for the gray and black 24-hours with day/night indication, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous black baton hands, orange hands for the chronograph, luminous blue hand for the second time zone. Cal. 910, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator.