4,956 CHF
"Tri-Compax" Universal Genève, "Tri-Compax", No. 190848, case No. 1013987, Ref. 22502. Made in the 1950s. Fine Enversteel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, triple date and moon phases. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, snap-on case back, correctors on the band. Brushed silver with luminous Arabic numerals, outer minutes and 1/5th seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals, outermost blue tachometer graduation, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, date at 12, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Blued steel luminous "lozenge" hands. Cal. 287, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36.5 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes At the end of the 1950s, Universal’s Tri-Compax was the greatest commercial success in Swiss horological history.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14
