Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 208

Minerva, No. 52268. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, stainless steel and 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped single button chronograph, register and tachometer.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, flat bezel, hinged bezel and case back, concave lugs. D. Off-white with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th second scale. Blued steel "épée" hands. M. 13???, rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, the single button is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph. Dial, movement signed, numbered on the case. Diam.34 mm. Thickness 11 mm.