Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 55

OMEGA SPEEDMASTER GEMINI IV 40TH ANNIVERSARY STEEL Omega, "Speedmaster Professional, 1965 - 2005", No. 0668/2005, case No. 77141674, Ref. ST3565.80. Made in a limited edition of 2005 examples in 2005 to mark the 40th anniversary of the first spacewalk, sold on July 2nd, 2006. Fine, asymmetric, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, blue bezel with tachometer and a stainless steel Omega bracelet with deployant clasp signed: "Speedmaster Professional". Accompanied by the original box, warranty, certificate and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, screwed down case back numbered and engraved circularly in black at the rim: "40th Anniversary - First Spacewalk". Colored medallion in the center of the case back commemorating the first spacewalk with the words: "Gemini 4 - First Spacewalk - Mc Divitt, White". Bi-color, blue and silver with applied steel baton indexes and luminous dots, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, sunk guilloché subsidiary dials for the constant seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 1861, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring.