2,714 CHF
Yellow Gold "Uni-Compax" Universal Genève, "Uni-Compax". Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. Three-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, dedicated case back. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and bâton indexes, outer fifths of a second and minute track with Arabic five minute/second numerals, outermost blue painted tachometer scale and red telemeter scale, subsidiary seconds and 45- minute register dials. Yellow gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 285, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Notes The back of the watch is inscribed: With Gratitude to Werner C. Lier, the Best Friend of the Interned American Aviator in Switzerland, February, 1945.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
