Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 65

Universal ref. 12264, Tri Compax Pink Gold. Universal, Genève, ?Tri-Compax?, ref. 12264, case no. 1016209, movement no. 212523. 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 baton and roman 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.