Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 432

UNIVERSAL TRI-COMPAX Universal, Genève, No.1333075. Ref. 12551. Made in the 1940s. Fine and unusual, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar, moon phases, and a gold-plated Universal buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, angled lugs, inset calendar adjusters to the band, snap-on-case back. D. Brushed silver with gilt Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloche 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 feuille hands. M. Cal. 287, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.