Hermès 'Presents The Universal Genève Compax'

Hermès presents the Compax Nothing excites the watch collector quite like a double-signed dial. Common throughout the 20th century (and much less common today), the presence of a retailer signature adds significantly to both the value and historical interest of a watch. Back in the 1930s when this ad was produced, none other than Hermès was a distributor of Swiss watchmaker Universal Genève — a fact that led to beautiful, double-signed dials on famous models such as the Compax line of chronographs. This incredible bit of advertising history dating to 1938 is not only incredibly well preserved, but represents a time long past: In the page's center we view a triple-register, hand-wound Compax chronograph signed with the Hermès wordmark, the description below explaining its technical specifications: Minute recorder, hour recorder, 1/5th-seconds track, tachymeter scale for tracking speeds up to 400km, optional pulsometer scale, and more.  Securing a watch like this today would attract the