Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 156

Enversteel "Tri-Compax" Universal, Genève, "Tri-Compax". Made circa 1950. Fine, astronomic, ?Enversteel?, gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date, moon phases and an 18K white gold Universal buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, wide straight lugs. D. Brushed silver with applied Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second track, Arabic five minute/ second numerals, concentric blue tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, graduation for the date around the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the months. White gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 481, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 13 mm.