30,000 EUR
Omega, The De Ville Rattrapante, The “Only Watch 2005“ platinum “De Ville Rattrapante” No. 001. Notes Limited-edition Omega De Ville Rattrapante With a revolutionary design both inside and out, the new Omega De Ville Rattrapante combines the benefits of the brand’s proprietary Co-Axial Escapement technology with a prestigious split-seconds chronograph mechanism to produce a top-of-the range chronograph. Housed in the familiar De Ville Co-Axial case, its individualistic new dial design deliberately breaks away from the norm to set it apart as a watch of distinction. The exclusive limited-edition version in platinum 950 is laced with luxury and has a revolutionary new means of personalisation. Omega’s masterstroke for this limited-edition model is a new way of personalising each watch, with the individual limited number as the counterweight of the chronograph seconds hand. In a revolutionary use of nanotechnology in watchmaking, the watch’s number is actually “grown” on the counterweight of the seconds hand in electroformed nickel. This means that each watch has its own unique hand bearing its own individual number, with the red-tipped split-seconds hand bearing the number of the total production run. Therefore, when both hands are at rest or moving in synchronisation the two counterweights together read (00x/107). The quantity of 107 is actually the number of years that have passed since Omega launched its first chronograph calibre in 1898, the 19”’ CHRO, which was used i
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-09-22
