The people of the UG forum,

I am new to the forum (although I have dropped in on the forum for some time). Ever since first reading about Ben Clymer's "Pete Fullerton" tricompax, through Hodinkee, I've become sort-of obsessed with vintage tricompax/compax Universals; spending a good deal of my spare time at university checking out this forum, ebay, chrono24 etc.

Anyway, I figure that since my 21st birthday is fast approaching, now might be the perfect time to look at committing to my first UG.

I've found a couple that I'm fond of at the moment, and rather hoped that the you might offer some thoughts on them.

First up, is a 1939 Unicompax in steel, and what I think is an absolutely fantastic looking dial, which is apparently original; it also comes with its original box.


I was also wondering if anyone would be able to tell me more about the U logo on the dial, as I've scarcely seen many UG's with this logo.



Second is a 50's 18K compax (I wasn't sure about the crown-case combo on this one).

http://www.chrono24.com/en/universa...arch&tab=details&urlSubpath=/search/index.htm

Anyway, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on both of these, particularly about condition/originality and worthiness of consideration.

Thanks.

 

Welcome. Good thinking coming here before your purchase. The steel Unicompax's dial is indeed fantastic, but I'm afraid not original... over-inked, wrong fonts, and that logo looks like something from a '60's UG bracelet... allow me to dip into LouS's photobucket...

 

MMMD has called it right. I'd avoid that watch at any price.

 

Thanks, to you both!

 

Thanks LouS,

I've come across one that certainly seems to be cleaner and hopefully you'll all be able to let me know what you think about this one:




Thanks

 

I managed to get a picture of the movement and inside of the caseback: