Oku
·+1 for redial
I would vote redial, mvmt and case look good
Yard? Redial for sure but why the yard. Anyone a clue? https://www.ebay.com/itm/125129144768?hash=item1d224739c0:g:22oAAOSw9Klh-a1O
not sure if I'm missing something, but I dont see an obvious redial, the numbers look pretty OK from a distance? Not sure about fonts, need better pics/closeups
Not sure if its my eyes or the photographs but I also find that dial pretty tricky. Love a Jeanneret case, obviously.
The fonts and central logos and big o’clock numbers look very good, especially at first glance. No roundly subdial lips, no roundly ‘3’s in those subdials and little excess redial lacquer visible overall on the dial. The watch looks right. But then I’m bothered by the apparent lack of any concentric rings in the subdials. One’s eyes then move to the outer tracks and they look all over place, shoddy dashes and dodgy-looking scales lying together with unusual spacing. The dial has a real over-inked look to it in many of the listing photographs but that could just be the light. Finally, one looks back at 6 o’clock and you see no ‘Swiss’ and that as a general rule is correct for Compur of this era, and so many redials have a bad ‘Swiss’ or ‘Swiss Made’ bodged in here instead.
My gut says a very old and very good partial redial. You’re all on your own with the ‘Yard’ bit.
We discussed this one before: https://omegaforums.net/threads/universal-geneve-watches-on-ebay.3584/page-294
Now FS on insta: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZPH7wzrHMO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Also here: https://www.chrono24.nl/universalgenve/compax--id22393100.htm Asking EUR 6.500
This - basically very nice - 22325 Dato-Compax just sold for EUR 2.450 (excl 40(!)%fees). Wonder whether they buyer knows it is a 32mm... I assume/hope/pray for the buyer that the green spots around the 11 are on the plexi
Interesting thing is that in Sala this reference has another dial (no hooked 1 for instance) but that 2 (very) close siblings have identical dials: https://mentawatches.com/product/sold-watches/universal-geneve-dato-compax/ & https://watchcharts.com/listing/729...pax-22325-chrongraph-original-dial-steel-runs
To complicate the matter there are a couple of batches:
- 1.047.xxx: see https://curious-curio.jp/watch/45045
- 1.058.xxx
- 1.175.xxx: ones I posted above
- 1.181.xxx: https://orologi.forumfree.it/?t=74704867
Remarkably that there are so few of them around
This 22280 (https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/universal-geneve-compax-salmon-285a-1198114350/) is a very curious one for a couple of reasons:
- They forgot the last number of the serial (but the caseback itself seems legit)
- Reference must be correct (22279 and 22285 being the reference of close serials
- Movement has the one but highest serial I have ever seen. Have only seen one other with a 300 serial
- Caliber is marked 285A (if this would have a Porsche I would have thought Austauch (exchange)