Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 262

Tri-Compax Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax", movement No.220162, case No. 1106253. Made in the 1950s. Fine, ?Enversteel? wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, polished, concave lugs, rounded bezel, snap-on case back, correctors on the band. D. Brushed silver with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minutes and 1/5th seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals, outermost blue tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, date at 12, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Blued steel luminous lozenge hands. M. Cal. 287, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of Various Owners