$11,400
Stainless Steel Chronograph Omega, No. 9380245, Ref. 857. Made circa 1940. Fine and very rare, stainless steel Staybrite wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, lapidated bezel, concave lugs, 2 pushers (reset on the winding crown). Silver with printed Arabic numerals, guilloché subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds track with black Arabic five minute numerals, outer telemeter scale, concentric spiral tachometer scale. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. CHRO 33.3, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-18
