Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 18

Yellow Gold Tri-Compax Universal, Genève, No. 52, case No. 1281100. Sold on January 1, 1989. Fine, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman`s wristwatch with oliveshaped button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases and tachometer. Accompanied by its original box and guarantee.

C. Three-body, polished, rounded stepped bezel, downturned lugs. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer seconds/minutes and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost blue tachometer graduation, sunk 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. Luminous blued steel ?feuille? hands. M. Cal. 281, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 12 mm.