Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 100

MINERVA SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH ENAMEL DIAL SILVER Minerva, Villeret, Suisse, case No. 358456. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, large, silver wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register and tachometer.

CHF 1,500 - 2,500

HKD 12,500 - 21,000 / USD 1,600 - 2,700

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 2,500

Three-body, polished, curved bezel, curved lugs with fixed wire bars, olive-shaped button at 2 for the start/stop and return- to-zero functions of the chronograph, hinged back. White enamel with black Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, outer red and blue tachometer scales, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers. Blued steel feuille hands. 16 ½ ''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-71-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairlines

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and movement signed, case numbered. DIAM. 42 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. To be sold without reserve