Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 249

Universal Tri-Compax Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax," movement No. 222350, case No. 1107277, Ref. 22242. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar and moon phases. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, inverted bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back, correctors on the band. D. Matte silver with luminous Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary 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. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. 481, frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 13 mm. From the Collection of a Swiss Gentleman