Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 27

OMEGA, REF. 176.007, SEAMASTER AUTOMATIC CHRONOGRAPH, STEEL Omega, ?Seamaster Automatic chronograph?, No. 35602983, Ref. 176.007. Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, 12-hour and 60-minute registers, date, 24-hour indication, tachometer and a stainless steel Omega bracelet with deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, screwed-down case back with Seamaster logo, heselite crystal. D. Midnight blue with luminous square indexes, inner Arabic 5 minute markers, outer 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the constant seconds and 12-hour registers, 24-hours with day/night indication by arrow on a revolving disc, central 60-minute register with orange-tipped ?jet? hand, aperture for the date, outer tachometer graduation to 500 uph. Luminous white ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 1040, copper-colored, 22 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometric index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 x 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Approx overall length 175 mm. [Service tachometer disk part]