OMEGA (Speedmaster Automatic Day / Date Silver Chronograph ref. 175.0084), circa 1998 Steel pilot's chronograph with bevelled handles, large one-piece graduated tachymetric bezel and screw-down caseback (numbered and engraved with the Speed logo). Silvered and metallic dial with three off-white counters: hour totalizer at 6 o'clock, small seconds and 24-hour reading at 9 o'clock, small minute counter and day and month windows at 12 o'clock, date reading by the black crescent hand on the dial flange. Applied hour markers, luminescent dots and skeleton hands, chrono arrow second hand in the centre. Strap: Crocodile leather (Crocodylia spp. CITES appendix II B) with a period Omega pin buckle. Movement: Self-winding calibre signed OMEGA / 1151 (modified Eta 7751 base) Swiss. Diameter: 39 mm. Condition: Good condition (Vintage Omega case).

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