Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 376

Universal Pink Gold Compax, Universal, Genève, "Compax", movement No. 269478, case No. 1188256, Ref. 12558. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, lapidated lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte pink with applied pink gold dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12 hour register, outer 1/5th seconds/minute divisions, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 287, frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm.