Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 10, 2015
UNIVERSAL REF. 22414 AÉRO-COMPAX STEEL Universal, Genève, "Aéro-Compax", case No. 1487577, Ref. 22414. Made in the late 1950s. Fine, stainless steel aviator wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, memento dial and two crowns.
Three-body, polished and brushed , lapidated lugs, winding crown at 9 for adjusting the memento dial, snap on case back. Matte silver with luminous baton indexes, outer minutes and seconds track with every Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers and the memento in 12 hours, outer tachometer scale. Luminous blued steel baton hands. Cal. 287, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |