Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 224

UNIVERSAL Ref. 22319 COMPAX STEEL AND PINK GOLD LUGS Universal, Geneve, ?Compax?, case No. 856747, Ref. 22319. Made in the 1950s. Fine and rare, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, pink gold horn lugs, rounded bezel, snap-on case back.
D. Champagne with applied yellow gold dots, Roman numeral at 12, outer minutes/seconds track with every 5 Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outermost black tachometer scale. Yellow gold baton hands.
M. Cal. 283, frosted gilt, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 12 mm.