Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 249

UNIVERSAL REF. 12553 TRI-COMPAX PINK GOLD Universal, Genève, Triple Date, Chronograph, No. 251986, case No. 1245137, Ref. 12553. 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, triangular lugs, snap-on-case back. D. Copper color with printed Arabic numerals, 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. Blued steel 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. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.