• Movement 
    Automatic
  • Year of manufacture 
    1970
  • Lot number 
    196
  • Diameter 
    66mm
  • Location
    Switzerland

Description

OMEGA OLYMPIC GRAND LUXE CHRONOGRAPH
SKELETON VERSION 1972 YELLOW GOLD
Omega, "Joel 1972", Ref. MG 6715 S., the movement entirely
hand-cut, filed, angled and chased by Jules-Henri Meylan.
Made in a limited edition of 5 pieces only in 1972.
Very fine and extremely rare, large, 18K yellow gold skeletonized
pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and 30-minute
register. Accompanied by the original leather travel fitted box
Three-body, massive, "pomme", polished bezel engraved "Joel
1972", grooved satin-brushed band, transparent back, co-axial
start-stop in the crown, pusher in the band at 11 for the split-seconds,
at 1 for hand-setting, anti-reflective optical crystals.
Gold chapter ring with black baton indexes and radial Arabic
numerals, outer silvered chapter ring with black seconds Arabic
numerals and 1/5th second divisions, subsidiary chapter rings for
the seconds and 30-minute register. Black and white baton hands.
Skeletonized, gilt brass and brushed steel, fully handchased
and engraved by Jules-Henri Meylan, 23 jewels, straight-line lever
escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet
balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible brushed
steel chronograph work on the back plate.


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First name 
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