Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 284

?Enversteel Compax? Universal, Genève, ?Compax?, case No. 1193797, Ref. 22430. Made circa 1950. Fine, large, and very rare stainless steel ?Enversteel? gentleman` s wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, massive, polished, inclined bezel, concave and faceted lugs. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, inner luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds scale and tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous blued steel ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 292, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thicknesss 13 mm.