Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 148

Universal, Geneve, ?Compax?, movement No. 251470, case No. 1187614, Ref. 22282. Made in the 1950s. Fine, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and telemeter. To be sold without reserve

C. Three body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, inverted bezel, snap-on case back. D. Silver with applied steel dart indexes and 12 Arabic, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers, inner minute/seconds divisions, outer red telemeter scale and blue tachometer scale. Luminous steel lozenge hands. M. Cal 283, gilted, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 12 mm.