Never saw one like this before.
On closer inspection, I find it remarkable that, despite being from the same photo set for the same listing, the font colours of the words "Universal Geneve" are different in the first and second photos: one appears black, the other appears yellow. Perhaps evidence of two types.
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Haha, well, good to remember recent transactions that we have record of for the Nina Rindts. Last October, one reportedly sold for $23,000 in a silent auction by analog/shift that I wrote about on HODINKEE.
https://www.hodinkee.com/blog/whats-selling-where-five-absolutely-killer-watches-begging
Then Yorktime in Canada reportedly sold one for $19,000 within the weekend after I wrote about it on HODINKEE:
https://www.hodinkee.com/blog/whats...net-jackson-to-her-lover-and-a-watch-to-avoid
Then Matt Bain reportedly sold one for $22,000 within a couple days after I featured it on HODINKEE:
https://www.hodinkee.com/blog/from-a-lecoultre-deep-sea-alarm-on-ebay-to-a-crazy-vintage-b
The hands are very interesting. I think the watch may be transitional between the early dial with applied logo and the later painted dial where the register hands were also painted white. I think I have seen two of the Ninas with silver luminous register hands. Perhaps they then realized silver was not easily legible, so they painted them white. What do others think? The register hands certainly are original from Universal and based on my understanding of the history of the watch and my gut, I don't think they were put on recently.
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The hands are very interesting. I think the watch may be transitional between the early dial with applied logo and the later painted dial where the register hands were also painted white. I think I have seen two of the Ninas with silver luminous register hands. Perhaps they then realized silver was not easily legible, so they painted them white. What do others think? The register hands certainly are original from Universal and based on my understanding of the history of the watch and my gut, I don't think they were put on recently.
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This one below is panda tri-compax for $8k, not ebay though. Apologies for the bad photo, I haven't contacted the seller for better photos.
What an odd UG, here. What are your thoughts?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNIVERSAL-GENEVE-chronograph-1970s-NOS-/261993346703?hash=item3d0005368f
It's a relatively common Lemania product.
They made dials to go for loads of companies. Mid 70s was not a good time for either companies.
Caliber 1873.
