Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 41

Universal Genève, "Compax", movement No. 268562, case No. 1188236, Ref. 12558. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, inclined bezel, snap-on case back. D. Matte pink with applied pink gold round indexes and painted Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds division, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 287, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 11 mm.