Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 48

OMEGA - MUSEUM COLLECTION NUMBER FOUR - 1915 PETROGRAD - PINK GOLD Omega, "Petrograd", No. 0309/1915, case No. 80701155, Ref. BG 156.2001. Collector`s Series Number Four from the Museum Collection. Made in a limited series of 1915 pieces in 2003. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Omega buckle. Accompanied by the original Omega box, limited series certificate and instruction manual.

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

HKD 41,000 - 58,000 / USD 5,400 - 7,500

Sold: CHF 6,250

Three-body, polished, hinged wire lugs, inclined and rounded bezel, curved factory-engraved reverse secured by 8 gold screws and engraved: "1915, The Omega Museum Collection, THE PETROGRAD WATCH, Collector`s Series Number Four", domed sapphire crystal. Matte silver with radial black Art Deco numerals, subsidiary seconds, outer minute track. Black poire and feuille hands. Cal. 2200, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIM. 32.5 x 47 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. This model was launched at the 2003 Basel Fair and is an enhanced replica of a barrel-shaped watch from 1915 that was intended for the Russia of Czar Nicholas II, which had St. Petersburg (also known as Petrograd) as its capital.