Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 64

Universal - Pink Gold - Tr i-Compax Universal, Genève, Triple Date, Chronograph, Ref. 12551. Made in the 1940's. Fine and unusual, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar and moon phases.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, inclined bezel, triangle lugs, snap-on-case back. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold dart indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the date, the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track and tachometer graduation, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 287, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.