30,680 CHF
“SPEEDMASTER ALPHA FIRST GENERATION” Omega, “Speedmaster”, No. 17302974, Ref. CK 2998-1. Sold on September 7, 1960. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman`s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, black bezel with tachometer graduated to 500 UPH and a stainless steel Omega bracelet and deployant clasp. This watch is sold with a box, a Certificate of Authenticity, and a 2-year Omega guarantee. Property of an Italian Collector Three body, solid, polished, case back engraved with Speedmaster logo, hesalite crystal. Black with painted luminous baton indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, applied Omega logo at 12. Luminous steel “alpha” hands. Luminous white “dot” chronograph hand. 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 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Notes Ref. CK 2998-1 was launched in 1959, and was the successor to the “Broad Arrow”, reference CK 2915. This reference differed from its predecessor in that the “Broad Arrow” hands were replaced with “Alpha” hands, and the steel bezel with one with a black insert. There were two generations of this reference; the first, as in the present lot, with large “dot” chronograph hand, the second with “baton” chronograph hand. This reference is so
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-04-15
