Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 248

UNIVERSAL REF. 124103 UNI-COMPAX PINK GOLD Universal, Geneve, Uni-Compax, case No. 1360994, Ref.124103. Made in the 1950s. Fine 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. D. Salmon with applied 12 and 6 Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer 5-minute/seconds Arabic divisions and tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and 45-minute registers. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 287 mm, brass-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm.