Important Collectors’ Wristwatches an...

Hôtel Plaza Athénée - Le Trianon, Sep 28, 2005

LOT 6

Universal Genève, "Compax", case No. 1361819. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer. Accompanied by a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, concave lugs. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold dart indexes and a Roman 12, outer 1/5th seconds scale and tachometer graduation, "guilloché" subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 481, frosted gilt, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm.