10,000 CHF
OMEGA CHRONOGRAPH CAL 33. 3 SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Omega, movement No. 9374456, case No. 9555248. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and very rare, stainless steel "Staybrite" wristwatch with olive shaped single-button chronograph, register, telemeter, tachometer and exotic lugs. Three-body, polished and brushed, flat stepped bezel, mobile triple lugs, snap-on case back. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register, inner blue and red telemeter scale, outer minute/seconds track, outermost blue tachometer scale. Blued steel feuille hands. Cal. 33.3 CHRO, matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bi-metallic balance spring, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Notes Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 36.5 mm. THICKNESS 13.5 mm. Another example of a chronograph with this very rare case type with triple mobile lugs is illustrated in: "Omega - A Journey Through Time", Marco Richon, 2007, p.536.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-05-10
