11,210 CHF
SO-CALLED “PRE-MOON” Omega, “Speedmaster”, No. 24011781, case No. 10564019. Ref. ST 105.003-65. Sold on October 17, 1966. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman’s wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, and a stainless steel Omega link bracelet with deployant clasp. This watch is sold with a box, a Certificate of Authenticity, and a 2-year Omega guarantee. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back with engraved Speedmaster logo below a hippocampus, tachometer graduation on the black bezel, lapidated lugs, anti-magnetic dust cap. Black with luminous baton indexes, outer minute and fifth second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous white “baton” hands. Cal. 321, copper-colored, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39.7 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes The present watch is identical to the one worn by Thomas Stafford on Gemini 6, Gemini 9 and the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission. Ref. ST 105.003 Introduced in 1963, can be considered the third generation of “Pre-Moon” Speedmasters. The first generation being the so-called “Broad Arrow” Ref. CK 2915, (see lots 200 and 201) with its steel bezel and distinctive arrow hands; the second the Ref. CK 2998 / ST 105.002 with black bezel and alpha hands (see lots 202 and 203); this
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-04-15
