Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 271

UNIVERSAL REF. 12266, TRI COMPAX PINK GOLD Universal, Genève, "Tri-Compax", Ref. 12266, case No. 1244576, movement No.263319. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, inclined bezel, snap-on case back, correctors on the band. D. Champagne with applied pink gold dart indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 481, gilted, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 35mm. Thickness 13mm.