Universal Geneve Watches On Ebay

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Interesting monopusher coming up for sale: https://www.pestel-debord.com/en/lo...atchcirca-1934-compsearch=universal&sort=num&

Compur single push-button chronograph, the round steel case (one horn handle attached) with clipped back (signed and numbered 547912). Black dial (accident at 9 o'clock) with white painted indications including Arabic numerals, 19km calibrated telemetric scale, spiral tachymetric scale in the center, seconds counter at 9 o'clock and minutes totalizer at 3 o'clock. Leather strap with pin buckle. Mechanical movement with manual winding with two column wheels (does not work, to be revised). Diameter: 39 mm Condition: quite good

 
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Your hour hand is different from the one right above isn't it?
You are right!

And my subdials are also both centered...
 
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Agreed. But still I think that dial is legit
 
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I agree that the way that Universal Watch is written so far north on the dial is incongruous - plus the fact that the soldered lugs don't seem to sit well with a watch from the 30s (can't see anything else in Sala from that period like that).

Was there anything else you didn't like? (apart from the roads, sanitation etc...)
 
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Nope thats about it. Perhaps the case itself is not original, which may explain the crude lugs
 
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I just snapped up this one on eBay. Very elegant and modest, despite 14K case. The 218-9 movement is the a beauty. And imo really underrated.

 
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Indeed very underrated era of UG. Nice catch
 
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I agree that the way that Universal Watch is written so far north on the dial is incongruous
Imho that is fine. On enamel dials with snail track, the Universal watch is often written like that. And if you look at the original pics, you can see that the dial once had a snail track that has now nearly completely faded away.