I figured the board might be interested to know about these recent sales. I noticed Hodinkee sold a Tri Compax yesterday in less than 1 hour for $8,500.
I probably should have bought this one too. It sold super fast on eBay… I already have one so I hesitated… Great price in my opinion.
Yea..Despite the fair to good dial and a service moon…a nice price and fast sale. The gold one …hour counter hand? Hmmm.
i think someone just swapped the date and sub hour hand, if the buyer is lucky they can just be swapped back.
Please post links: https://shop.hodinkee.com/products/tri-compax-ref-22258-c-1156573?variant=39831157145675 Interesting to see that they could not be bothered to post movement pics
pretty strong price. The upper case corrector looks like a non matching replacement, moon disc replaced, dial is OK condition
Minor quibbles but the second from top case corrector looks to not extend like the others, perhaps it's jammed down? Crown replaced? Are both pusher tubes/caps matching? I can't tell. Anyhow small stuff, these are quite rare coming to market.
The case serial dates to 45, which should have a moonphase disc with face. We haven't precisely nailed down the crossover to faceless moon discs, but it's definitely not this early. They were often replaced as the blue paint didn't hold up on the face versions. The blue paint has held up quite well on the faceless. Not the end of the world, and some people might prefer the blue pop from a faceless. Best of both worlds is to find a face version with blue paint intact, but that's quite hard.
Mid 40s Tri Compax came with a moon disc with a face. They did not hold up well. In the 50s UG went with a gold moon. Any service the face discs were replaced.
Hey @TexOmega ill see your “non-faded face” and raise you… three-of-a-kind! Seriously, 1940s Tri-Compax are just a sight to behold.
