3,335 CHF
Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax". Produced circa 1945. Fine, astronomic, stainless steel "Enversteel" gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. Matte silver with radium-coated Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiarydials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale, graduation for the days of the month concentric tothe moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the month. Radium-coated "Lozenge" hands. Cal. 481, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case andmovement signed.Diam. 35 mm. Height 13 mm. Notes At the end of the 1950s, Universal's Tri-Compax was the greatest commercial success in Swiss horological history.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-11-14
