Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 163

?Pink Tri-Compax? Universal, Genève, "Tri-Compax". Made in the 1950s. Fine, astronomic, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases and tachometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave lugs. D. Champagne with applied pink gold dart indexes, outer chronograph divisions, outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, graduation for the date concentric with the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Pink gold "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 481, rhodiumplated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.