Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 56

OMEGA DE VILLE CO-AXIAL - OLYMPIC COLLECTION - ROME 1960 EDITION Omega De Ville, "Chornograph, Automatic, Co-Axial Escapement", Olympic Collection, Rome 1960, No. 78065893, Ref. 48412032. Sold on June 13, 2006. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, date, registers and a stainless steel Omega deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Omega fitted box, instruction booklet, Chronometer Certificate and Guarantee.

Three body, polished, downturned lugs, stepped rounded bezel, crown protected by the crown guard, screw down transparent case back engraved "Co-Axial Escapement - Chronograph" with Olympic ring logo at the center, sapphire crystals. White lacquered with painted black Arabic numerals, outer minute and seconds track with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minutes and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous stainless steel Alpha hands. Cal.3313, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, co-axial escapement, 37 jewels, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, flat balance spring, hack mechanism.