8,625 CHF
Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax”. Produced circa 1950. Very fine, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date calendar and moon phases. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. Matte silver with applied gold dart and dot indexes,subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale in blue Arabic numerals, graduation for the days of the month concentric to the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the month. Yellow gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 481, gilt brass, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm. Height 12,8 mm. Notes At the end of the 1950s, Universal,s Tri-Compax was the greatest commercial success in Swiss horological history.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-10-24
