102,500 CHF
Omega 'Tourbillon', No. 10595937, Cal. 1, produced in 1947.Extremely rare and very important, 18K yellow gold chronometer gentleman's wristwatch with a 7 1/2minute r evolving 'Tourbillon' regulator. Accompanied by a gold-plated Omega buckle and a book-shapedbrown leather fitted box. three-body, solid, polished, transparent back, lapidated bezel, concave lugs. Notes Conceived to eliminate positional error, the 'tourbillon' is a rotating cage containing all the escapement parts, with,at its center, the balance.Omega designed, e xclusively for Observatory precision contests, only twelve e xamples of this chronometer made b yJean-Pierre Matthey-Claudet according to plans drawn by Marcel Vuilleumier, director of the 'Ecole d'horlogerie' of theVallée de Joux. Regulated by the famous Alfred Jaccard, some of these watches obtained e xcellent results from 1947 t o1952 in Kew Teddington (London), Neuchâtel and Geneva.One piece particularly - No. 10'595'933 - won 867.7 points at the Gene va Observatory contest in 1950, the bestperformance ever achieved up to that time, in the category of single wristwatches.In 1987, seven of this series of chronometers had their 2/3 plate mo vement entirely o verhauled, rhodium plated,angled, polished, decorated with the 'Côtes de Genève' and fitted with an 18K gold case with transparent back andpush-button for time-setting protected by an olivette.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-11-19
