Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 182

Yellow Gold "Tri-Compax" Universal, Genève, "Tri-Compax". Made in the 1950s. Fine, astronomic, 18K yellow gold, gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, triple date, moon phases and tachometer.

C. Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, concave curved lugs.
D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold dart indexes, outer minutes and fifths of a second track with Arabic five minute/second numerals, concentric tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, graduation for the date around the moon phase aperture, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Yellow gold "feuille" hands.
M. Cal. 283, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.