Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 292

Universal - Oversize - Compax Chronograph Universal, Genève, ?Compax", No. 260403, case No. 1193790, Ref. 22430. Made circa 1950. Fine and very rare, large, stainless ?Enversteel? wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

c. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave and faceted lugs. d. Smoked silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers and tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous blued steel baton hands. m. Cal. 292, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 11 mm.