Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 509

UNIVERSAL REF. 124103 UNI-COMPAX PINK GOLD Universal, Geneve, Uni-Compax, case No. 1452240, Ref. 124103. Made in the 1950s. Fine 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer.

Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. Silver with applied Arabic numerals and dart indexes, outer 5-minute/seconds Arabic divisions and blue tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and 45-minute registers. Pink gold dauphine hands. Cal. 285, rhodium-plated, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.