Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 376

UNIVERSAL REF. 22414 AÉRO-COMPAX STEEL Universal, Genève, "Aéro-Compax", case No. 1487577, Ref. 22414. Made in the late 1950s. Fine, stainless steel aviator wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, memento dial and two crowns.

CHF 4,500 - 6,500

HKD 36,000 - 53,000 / USD 4,700 - 6,800

Sold: CHF 6,875

Three-body, polished and brushed , lapidated lugs, winding crown at 9 for adjusting the memento dial, snap on case back. Matte silver with luminous baton indexes, outer minutes and seconds track with every Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers and the memento in 12 hours, outer tachometer scale. Luminous blued steel baton hands. Cal. 287, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 37 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm.