101st Auction
2019/11/16
Lot 488
Omega "Speedmaster Professional Quartz - Alaska IV Project", Case No. 1621, Ref. ST 186.004, Cal. 1620 LCD, 36 mm, circa 1978
An important Omega digital split wristband chronograph - PROTOTYPE - with rattrapante and precision quartz movement, made for the "Alaska Project" and delivered to NASA
Case: steel, push back with Speedmaster logo, "Omega" buckle. Dial: black, digital.
The statement made by the Omega museum on October 7, 2019 says: "C'est effectivement bel et bien un prototype OMEGA Speedmaster Alaska IV mais malheureusement pas possible d'établir un extrait d'archive car il n'y a aucun numéro de mouvement pour effectuer une recherche. Je peux néanmoins vous confirmer par cet email que la montre est originale et un prototype comme décrit ci-dessus" ("This is an OMEGA SPEEDMASTER ALASKA IV PROTOTYPE, but unfortunately a copy from the archives cannot be produced because the watch bears no movement number. I hereby confirm, however, that this watch is original and a protoype as described above").
This digital Speedmaster Alaska IV is very similar to its mechanical counterpart when it comes to the shape of the lugs and the wide black bezel. It is a later prototype of reference 186.0004, developed as part of Omega’s Alaska project (the code name for a series of secret, NASA-related prototyping). The prototypes differ from the serial versions in several points: their cases are big enough to hold the Tritium light system, the word "Light" is missing from the dial and all examples have the identical case number 1621. This timepiece was part of a later prototype series without any hand-engraved numbers on the back.
An important Omega digital split wristband chronograph - PROTOTYPE - with rattrapante and precision quartz movement, made for the "Alaska Project" and delivered to NASA
Case: steel, push back with Speedmaster logo, "Omega" buckle. Dial: black, digital.
The statement made by the Omega museum on October 7, 2019 says: "C'est effectivement bel et bien un prototype OMEGA Speedmaster Alaska IV mais malheureusement pas possible d'établir un extrait d'archive car il n'y a aucun numéro de mouvement pour effectuer une recherche. Je peux néanmoins vous confirmer par cet email que la montre est originale et un prototype comme décrit ci-dessus" ("This is an OMEGA SPEEDMASTER ALASKA IV PROTOTYPE, but unfortunately a copy from the archives cannot be produced because the watch bears no movement number. I hereby confirm, however, that this watch is original and a protoype as described above").
This digital Speedmaster Alaska IV is very similar to its mechanical counterpart when it comes to the shape of the lugs and the wide black bezel. It is a later prototype of reference 186.0004, developed as part of Omega’s Alaska project (the code name for a series of secret, NASA-related prototyping). The prototypes differ from the serial versions in several points: their cases are big enough to hold the Tritium light system, the word "Light" is missing from the dial and all examples have the identical case number 1621. This timepiece was part of a later prototype series without any hand-engraved numbers on the back.
estimated
13.000—16.000 €
Price realized
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