21,240 CHF
“SMOKING WATCH” Omega, “Usine de Genève”, No. 6379488, case No. 6920322, Ref. 4900/4906. Sold on August 25, 1928. Very fine, rare and very slim, stirrup-shaped, 18K yellow gold and enamel Art Deco keyless smoking watch. This watch is sold with box, Certificate of Authenticity and a 2-year Omega guarantee. Two-body, rounded bezel with a champlevé enamel inlay of dark blue flowers and green leaves on the top and surrounded at each side by a chased gold flower and with an inlaid black enamel line at the case sides, back decorated with engine-turned checkerboard pattern, band and bowdecorated to match, with an extended rectangular en suite insert. Gilt bowwith black enamel inlay. Two-tone silvered with painted black “Greek” numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “cathedral” hands. Fabriqué à Genève, Cal. 35 ML, rhodium-plated, 16 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, cut bimetallic compensation, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 41.8 x 45 mm. Thickness 7.8 mm. Property of an Italian Collector Notes The “Usine de Genève” was Omega’s precision workshop based in Geneva. Many of the firm’s most precise movements were made there. Cal. 35 ML M = Thin L = Lépine This watch is illustrated in Omegamania, by Marco Richon, Chap. 10, p. 694.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-04-15
