Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 215

Omega - White Gold 25th Anni versary - APOLLO XI Omega, ?Speedmaster Professional, Chronometer?, No. 209/500, movement No. 48311514, Ref. BC 348.0062. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces in 1994. Very fine and rare, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, black bezel with tachometer and an 18K white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate, papers and a book ?Our Time In Space.?

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lyre lugs, crown and pusher with integral guard, black bezel with tachometer graduated to 500 UPH, case band engraved: Apollo XI 1969 ? 1994, screw-down transparent case back numbered and engraved: ?Speedmaster Professional ? Limited Edition.? D. Satine silver with applied white gold and black baton indexes, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 864, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.