Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 49

OMEGA - MUSEUM COLLECTION NUMBER TWO - 1951 COSMIC - PINK GOLD Omega, "Cosmic", No. 0396/1951, case No. 57913642, Ref. BG 156.2001. Collector`s Series Number Two from the Museum Collection. Made in a limited series of 1951 pieces in 2001. Very fine and rare, square, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with triple date calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Omega buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee (now void), limited series certificate and instruction manual.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, convex bezel, correctors in the band, stylized straight lugs, back numbered and engraved: "1951, The Omega Museum Collection, COSMIC, Collector`s Series Number Two", 4 screws, antireflective domed sapphire crystal. Black with applied pink gold baton, dagger and pyramid indexes, subsidiary dial for the seconds at 6, apertures for the day of the week, the months, and the phases of the moon, outermost graduation with painted gold Arabic numerals for the date. Pink gold alpha hands. Cal. 2601, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.