Important Collectors Wristwatches, Po...

Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 13

Monopoussoir Minerva, ?Chronograph?, movement No. 1348534, case No. 291846. Made in the 1940's. Fine and rare, oversized, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register and tachometer.

CHF 7,500 - 11,000

USD 7,500 - 11,000 / EUR 5,000 - 7,500

C. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. D. Enamel white with painted black Breguet numerals, subsidirary dials for the seconds and the 30 minute register, outer minute/seconds division with every five Arabic numerals, outermost tachometer scale. Blued steel pomme hands. M. 18???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, bi-metallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed, movement numbered. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness 13 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original