Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 348

OMEGA REF. 176.002 SPEEDMASTER MARK III STEEL Omega, "Automatic, Speedmaster, Mark III", No. 34241796, Ref. 176.002. This reference was launched in 1971. Fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel pilot's wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, 12-hour register, central minute recorder, tachometer, the 24 hours with night/day indication and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet.

Two-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back engraved with Seamaster logo, hooded lugs. Bicolor blue and silver with steel baton indexes and luminous dots, inner Arabic five minute markers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 500 UPH, subsidiary dials for the constant seconds and the 12-hour register, the 24 hours with night/day indication by means of an arrow on a revolving disc, 60-minute register by means of a orange central jet hand, aperture for the date. Luminous white baton hands. Cal 1040, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.