Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 79

Universal Steel "Tri-Compax" Universal Geneve, ?Tri-compax?, case No. 1896473, Ref. 22297/3. Made in the 1960s. Fine, stainless steel, water resistant wristwatch, with round button chronograph registers, triple date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, polished, concave lugs, date adjusters in the band, screw-down case back. D. White with applied stainless steel baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds,outer minute/seconds division, the 12-hours and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, aperture for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Luminous steel dauphine hands. M. Cal. 281, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 14 mm.