12,000 CHF
Omega, Fab. Suisse, “Chronograph, Tachy- Telemeter”, movement No. 9390177, case No. 9979309. Made circa 1940. Very fine and rare, stainless steel Staybrite wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer, and a steel Omega buckle. Three-body, polished and brushed, flat bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. Black with painted gold Arabic numeral indexes, inner concentric telemeter scale, outer minute/1/5th seconds track with five-minute Arabic numerals, outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Yellow gold skeleton lozenge hands. Cal. 13’’’, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, self-compensating blued Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32.5 mm. Thickness 13 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10