10,000 CHF
UNIVERSAL, AÉRO-COMPAX Universal Genève "Aéro-Compax". Made in the 1950s. Fine, rare and large, waterproof, stainless steel aviator wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, memento dial, and two crowns. Three-body, polished, tapered lugs, winding crown at 9 for adjusting the memento dial. Brushed silver with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fi fths of a second track with Arabic fi veminutes/ seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers and the memento in 12 hours, outer tachometer scale. Luminous blued steel "lozenge" hands. Cal. 287, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes Often found with a snap-on caseback, this large case example is fi tted with the rare screw-down water-proof case in steel. In excellent overall condition, combined with a mint condition dial, it is the nicest example of the Aero-Compax dial to appear at auction
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-05-13
