Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 351

OMEGA REF. 345.802 APOLLO XI GOLD Omega, "Speedmaster Professional", No. A042, movement No. 45580535, Ref. BA 345.802. Made in a numbered series in the 1980s. Fine and rare, asymmetric, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, tachometer, 18K yellow gold Omega link bracelet with an 18K white gold deployant clasp. Accompanied by the certificate of limited edition.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent snap-on case back engraved with: ?First Watch Worn On The Moon - Apollo XI 1969?, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 UPH, lyre lugs. D. Gold with applied yellow gold and black faceted indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute and 1/5th seconds division. Black baton hands. M. Cal. 861, rhodium plated, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 13.5 mm. Approx. overall length 190 mm.