Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 288

Minerva, No. 970387. Produced in the 1920s. Fine, oversized, stainless steel aviator?s gentleman's wristwatch with coaxial single button chronograph on the crown and register.

C. Three-body, polished, concave curved lugs. D. Black with painted white Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th second scale. Steel "cathedrale" hands. M. 17 1/2''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph.Dial signed, numbered on the movement.Diam. 42 mm. Height 15 mm.