Suspicious. Both case serial and ref number have been polished away?
Franken?

 

That dial is probably from the mid 1940s to 50s. The case is not UG and probaby from a 70s watch. The fact that its coming from an Argentinian seller confirms that it should be avoided like the plague.

 

Now which one of you scoundrels picked it up ???

 

This Uni-Compax looks like fully original and in fairly good condition.
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Even if this watch is all original, it's very ugly...

 

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Tri Compax alert. Place your bets. I think this will go north of £8500

 

Any reason not to recommend this one?
I guess the price should not go much higher.

 

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Tri-compax, white (tired) dial

 

Buyer beware

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Faker than Kim K's booty cheeks

 

Torn on whether or not I'd call this a "good" example. Bezel is...how was it termed for Speedies...a "meteorite" bezel? And the case looks to be quite polished - the facets on the lugs aren't nearly as sharp as they should be. That said, dial is in decent shape, hands all look good/proper, and the Portuguese date wheels are a nice point of differentiation. Movement looks to be in good shape too.

I'm going to guess 8K pounds.

 

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Quite the price to pay for a project (perhaps not really a viable project to begin with).

 

I just got this watch. I have a thing for patinated dials, and for vintage gold watches, and this particular case and dial details really do it for me. I sent the seller an offer half hoping they would say no but they agreed. At that point it would have been all sorts of rude not to follow through... If nothing else hopefully I saved enough to have it serviced.

 

Congrats on your purchase! Good looking watch for sure, especially that case reference! I'm the same with you for patinated dials, that's what attracts me to the watch originally!

 

Looks like it went for 3735.

 

Very nice cal 281, had I not have a similar one already I would sure go for this



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That dial looks a bit modern for me for that case, though the ref number dated back the watch to 1960. But I thought that they would've changed their logo already in the early 60s?

Looks like a nice watch tho!

 

It is very early 60s model before UG stopped using the cal. 28x series and started using 3rd party movements.