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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 5

Universal, Genève, movement No. 178559, case No. 874928, Ref. 22228. Made in the 1950s. Fine and unusual, water-resistant, antimagnetic, ?Enversteel? stainless steel wristwatch with round-button chronograph, register and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, concave bezel, concave lugs, screw-down back. D. Brushed silver, luminous Arabic numerals, 1/5th seconds divisions with Arabic 5-minute/ seconds, outermost tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 45 minute register. Blued skeleton lozenge hands. M. Cal. 281, 13???, frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, shock absorber, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 12 mm.