Following the tremendous success of a previous Ploprof prototype belonging to Christian Bonnici, part of the Cousteau team sold for CHF 131’250 (see lot 59, November 8, 2020), we are proud to offer another exceptional prototype, this time made out of titanium. According to the letter by the former Omega Museum director Mr Marco Richon, it states that an extremely small number (letter states less than a dozen) were ordered early 1970’s to the case maker Schmitz Freres to test the possibility of producing titanium cases for the Ploprof due to their lightness.
Obviously the high cost associated meant that it never happened and this current example was built later using a movement associated to a stainless steel example as the titanium cases were never assembled. Still fitted with its early “Seamaster” only dial, an extremely rare opportunity to acquire one of the very few prototype titanium cases ever made and is the only one ever to have appeared at auction.