10,620 CHF
“DEAD CENTER SECONDS” Omega, No. 10600477, Ref. 5506. Sold in 1948. Very fine and rare, gold-plated “Deluxe” eight day-going dead seconds table chronometer. Sold with a Certificate of Authenticity and 2-year Omega guarantee. To be sold without reserve Brushed side panels, hinged door, gilt bun feet. Silvered with applied gilt baton indexes and radial Roman quarters, outer minute/seconds track with Arabic five minutes/seconds on a red laquer ground with pierced and chased foliage decoration. Gilt “feuille” hands. Cal. 59 8-D SCS, copper-colored, 20 jewels, indirect center seconds with bull cless, bimetallic cut compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 128 x 128 mm. Property of a South American Collector Notes The present lot is a “Deluxe Table Clock”. The silvered dial of the table clock is surrounded by a branch decor, which was hand-cut by Jean-Pierre Matthey-Claudet. The clock case houses caliber 59 8-D SCS. It is a precision 8-day movement, which was patented as No. 229234, registered on August 17, 1942 and subsequently labeled as a “timepiece with center seconds-hand”. Cal. 59 8-D SCS was the first chronometer-grade movement with jumping center seconds. The center seconds are driven by a second pallet fork engaging with the seconds wheel. 8-D = 8 days SCS = Jumping center seconds
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-04-15
