$2,300
"Medico-Compax" Universal, Genève "Medico-Compax", Ref. 124116. Made for the Hispanic market in the 1940s. Fine and rare, large, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and pulsometer. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, lapidated concave lugs. Matte silver with appliedpink gold Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary seconds and 45-minute register dials, outer pulsometer scale"graduado para 15 pulsaciones". Pink gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 285, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes The "Medico Compax" launched in 1937, assists doctors to measure patients' pulse rates more accurately.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-06-15