Wow, thanks LouS.. a lot of food for thought there.

Stewart

: Below, a pic of a Universal Geneve Tri-Compax
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: Note the four subdials. UG, the home of the 'Compax'
: designation, used it to refer to the number of complications,
: not the number of subdials. In the Tri-Compax for example, these
: were chronograph, calendar and moonphase. For UG, a
: three-subdial chronograph was simply a 'Compax.' Nowadays,
: everyone uses the term to mean three subdials, but I thought
: that the forum might find the history of interest.

: To address your question, UG made Compaxes in a variety of sizes,
: most quite classic looking, all the way to 46mm.
: (pic from antiquorum)
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: If you don't mind a certain loss of sobriety in relation to the
: Carreras, there are always the Primeros in the more classically
: styled cases - 38mm
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