Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 115

"Tri-Compax" Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax", Ref. 22279. Made in the 1950s. Fine, astronomic, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, telemeter, tachometer, triple date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with applied steel baton indexes, outer minutes and 1/5th seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds markers, outermost tachometer and telemeter graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, graduation for the date at 12, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Steel "dauphine" 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.