Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 212

"Tri-Compax" Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax", Ref. 22502. Made in the early 1950s. Fine, astronomic, stainless steel "Enversteel" gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and 1/5th of a seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds markers, outermost tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, graduation for the days of the month concentric to the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the month. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 287, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.