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Tri-Compax 22258 Help please...
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Timetosell
·The reason you can't find another example like this because yours has a redial. Most examples I've seen gave had luminous hands and dial. Once the watch dial is refinished the value in the watch are the parts.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Yes the case is 22258 but it looks like its been “polished” with a belt sander. The protruding chronograph pushers signal a rebuild to me. The subdial hour counter hand is incorrect, and did someone put silver paint on the possibly corroded H/M/Chrono hands? Moon is a newer replacement disc. The dial is signaling refinished or some sort of service dial IMO but the fonts and spacing are correct for the S/N (some one had the tooling pehaps? Print quality is poor. )Since there is no innner caseback or movement shot. Impossible to say more. No collector will want this watch and other than the movement and moon disc, there is minimal parts value.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.The reason you can't find another example like this because yours has a redial. Most examples I've seen gave had luminous hands and dial. Once the watch dial is refinished the value in the watch are the parts.
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bgrisso
·That is a strange watch on many levels, as others already pointed out. I can't tell what is going on with the case. It would be interesting to get a closer look at the mid case with the bezel and caseback removed. At first glance it does appear like a bunch of thickness is missing? Or maybe just the wrong (early extended) case correctors are being used? Although those typically have cross hatch ends.
The dial is also weird. It's not so much weird wrong, or weird right, it's just weird. I think part of what's throwing me is the lack of a black circle around the upper date subdial, which I usually associate with later time period than this case serial. But that might require a deep dive.
Agree the moon disc probably replaced, and I would venture to say every single hand on the watch is wrong. Not necessarily that some of them were never UG hands, but they did not start on this watch.
Anyhow, like Larry said, this one is a pretty tough sell as is. If it were me, I would first try and figure out what's going on with the case. And then maybe see if it's worth trying to sort out the hands. Anyhow this one might be better kept as a family watch than try to sell it.
The dial is also weird. It's not so much weird wrong, or weird right, it's just weird. I think part of what's throwing me is the lack of a black circle around the upper date subdial, which I usually associate with later time period than this case serial. But that might require a deep dive.
Agree the moon disc probably replaced, and I would venture to say every single hand on the watch is wrong. Not necessarily that some of them were never UG hands, but they did not start on this watch.
Anyhow, like Larry said, this one is a pretty tough sell as is. If it were me, I would first try and figure out what's going on with the case. And then maybe see if it's worth trying to sort out the hands. Anyhow this one might be better kept as a family watch than try to sell it.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.This is what the watch looked like when it left the factory.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.You should mention that the pictured watch shows only one dial variant and that the dials may differ as the reference is only for the case, not the dial.
OP's watch has applied markers, the one pictured in Sala not.
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