Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 276

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.

CHF 8,000 - 12,000

HKD 65,000 - 97,000 / USD 8,300 - 12,500

Sold: CHF 10,000

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.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

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.