Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 248

Universal Pink Gold Compur Universal, Genève, "Compur", movement No. 162819, case No. 826860, Ref. 12307. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, flared curved lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte yellow with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 45-minute register, outer tachometer scale, inner 1/5th seconds/ minute divisions. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 283, frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 10 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman