Universal Genève 'Bathtub' Dress Watch

While Universal Genève may be most famed for its Compax chronographs and the Polerouter, its svelte dress watches are equally compelling. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, UG designed simple, time-only timepieces alongside its more complicated brethren that played with shape, color, and design in interesting and novel ways. Take this dressy timepiece, for example: Dating to circa the 1960s, it features a 24 x 35 mm stainless steel Tank-like case with a smooth bezel, an acrylic crystal, a signed crown, and a lovely silver sunburst dial with applied 'baton' indices and a matching 'sword' handset. Powered by a hand-wound movement, it comes paired to a brown leather strap with tone-on-tone stitching and a stainless steel pin buckle.  This is the perfect entryway into Universal Genève for the budding collector, or an excellent addition to an established collection for the person who appreciates something just a little bit different — or rather, very funky.