Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 223

UNIVERSAL COMPUR ENVERSTEEL CHRONOGRAPH Universal Watch, Genève, ?Compur?, case No. 568750. Made circa 1934. Fine and very rare, tonneau-shaped, stainless steel ?Enversteel? wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, screw down case back.
D. Brushed silver with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 45-minute register dials, inner blue-painted spiral tachometer scale, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions, outermost blue tachometer graduations. Blued steel ?baton? hands.
M. Cal. 285, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.