$3,068
“Yellow Tri-Compax" Universal, Genève, "Tri- Compax". Made in the 1940s. Fine, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases and tachometer. To be sold without reserve Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, triangular lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals, outermost blue tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, graduation for the date concentric with the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Yellow gold "feuille" hands. Cal. 481, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07