Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 114

"Tri-Compax" Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax", Ref. 12254. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar and moon phases.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, wide lapidated lugs. D. Champagne with applied pink gold dart indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Blued steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 481, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 13 mm.