Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 55

OMEGA SPEEDMASTER WHITE GOLD, ENAMEL DIAL, NO. 12/99 Omega, "Speedmaster", No. 12/99, movement and case No. 78020338, Ref. 36572031. Made in a limited edition of 99 pieces, in 2001. Fine and rare, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K white gold Chronometer wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K white gold Omega deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, warranty, Chronometer certificate and booklets.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent screwed down case back, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 300 UPH, lyre lugs, sapphire crystals. Enamel white with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds track, aperture for the date. Steel skeleton broad arrow hands. Cal. 3220, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, engraved rotor with the Speedmaster logo, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.