12,500 CHF
Omega Comex – Physalie – 520 M – 1970 – Patrice Chemin Omega, “Seamaster, Automatic, Chronometer Officially Certified", Ref. ST 166.032 / 168.023. Made in 1969. Very fine and very rare, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with day & date and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp. Three-body, solid, polished, brushed lapidated bezel, faceted lugs, screweddown case back with Seamaster logo and engraved: Comex – Physalie – 520 m – 1970 – Patrice Chemin. Frosted silver with applied faceted and black painted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the day & date. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. 751, rhodium-plated, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.q Notes Property of M. Patrice Chemin Patrice Chemin joined Comex in early 1970 as a diver and was selected to participate in several experimental hyperbaric dives, including Janus II at 250 m (820 ft.) in 1970, Physalie V, a World Record dive, at 520m (1,706 ft.) in Nov. 1970, Beluga at 180m (590 ft.) in water at – 2 Celsius (28 F), in 1971, and Physalie VI at 610m (2001 ft.) in May 1972. Patrice Chemin has held the World's Record for deep diving for 11 years. Interrupting his diving career in 1975 due to osteobone
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-11-13
