Closed | Important watches – Saturday 19 May 2018

Universal Geneve was founded in 1894, and produced their first wristwatch chronograph already in 1917, this at a time when the wristwatch still was considered a novelty. They kept developing their chronographs during the mid-1930’s, first with the model Compur that had two push pieces, one to start/stop and one to reset. About a year later came the Compax with three sub-dials to enable timekeeping for up to twelve hours. The combination of two push pieces and three sub-dials has today become classic, and is now the most common way to design a chronograph.

Lot 142 is a Uni-Compax, a model that was introduced in 1963 but only in production for a relatively short time. The nickname “Big Eye” comes from the extra large elapsed minutes sub-dial.

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