Important Collectors’ Wristwatches an...

Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 157

"Tri-Compax" Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax". Made in the 1960s. Fine, astronomic, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, polished, tachometer graduation on the black bezel to 500 units per hour, lapidated lugs. D. Bicolor silver and black with painted indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, graduation for the days of the month concentric to the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the month. Steel "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 281, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.