Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 153

MINERVA, OVERSIZED SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH, BLACK DIAL Minerva, case No. 672204. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, oversized, stainless steel wristwatch, with single button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer.

CHF 5,500 - 8,500

HKD 45,000 - 75,000 / USD 6,300 - 9,700

Sold: CHF 6,875

Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, inclined bezel, snap-on case back. Matte black with applied luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second/ minute divisions with 5 minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for seconds and 30 minute register, outermost telemeter scale, inner concentric tachometer scale. Luminous white cathedral hands. 17 1/2''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2

Very good

Dial: 3-8-55-01-05

Good

Slightly scratched

Luminous material reapplied

HANDS Original

HANDS Luminous material reapplied

Notes

Dial and case signed. DIAM. 42 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm.