Omega Yacht-Timer Chronograph Omega, movement No. 9379396, case No. 9173180. Made in 1937. Fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-button chronograph, register with yacht-timer scale, telemeter, and tachometer. | Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces | Geneva, 27th March 2011
Omega Yacht-Timer Chronograph Omega, movement No. 9379396, case No. 9173180. Made in 1937. Fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with olive-button chronograph, register with yacht-timer scale, telemeter, and tachometer., CHF 3,000 - 4,000 USD 3,000 - 4,000 / EUR 2,300 - 3,000 C. Three-body, solid, polished, lapidated bezel, concave lugs, olive-shaped pusher at 2 for start/stop and reset. D. Matte yellow with Breguet numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register with yacht-timer, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions with black Arabic five minute numerals, outer red telemeter scale, outermost blue tachometer scale, inner green spiral scale. Black steel modern hands. M. Cal. 2516, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 12 mm.
