Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 137

Athena II Minerva, Athena II, case No. 741573. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with date, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Minerva buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and instruction booklet. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, reeded band, hinged central lugs, snap-on transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. White with applied luminous steel indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale and tachometer graduation to 400 UPH, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour register, aperture for the date. Luminous blued steel feuille hands. M. Cal. L3, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 14 mm.