Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 389

OMEGA REF. ST955380 SINGLE BUTTON CHRONO CAL. 33.3 Omega, No. 9384232, case No. 9555380, Ref. ST955380. Made in 1939. Very fine and extremely rare, Staybrite steel wristwatch with single oval button chronograph and co-axial return to zero button on the winding-crown, minute register, tachometer, telemeter and a stainless steel Omega buckle. This watch is sold with the Extract from the Archives and Attestation of Restoration by Omega, dated January 1, 2012, with photos of Before and After.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, graduated steel bezel with Arabic hour markers, snap-on case back, co-axial button on the winding-crown.
D. Black with outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the constant seconds and 30-minute registers, concentric spiral tachometer scale. Steel epee hands
M. Cal. 33.3 CHRO, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic cut compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.