Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 64

UNIVERSAL REF. 22278 COMPAX STEEL Universal, Geneve, Compax, case No. 1046071, Ref. 22278. Made in the 1950s. Fine, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, inverted stepped bezel, screw-down case back. D. Silver with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour registers, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers and tachometer scale. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal 283, gilt brass, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 13 mm.