Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 102

MINERVA LARGE STEEL SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH Minerva, Suisse. Made in the 1940s. Fine, large, stainless steel wristwatch with single-button chronograph and register.

CHF 2,000 - 4,000

HKD 16,000 - 33,000 / USD 2,100 - 4,300

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 2,500

Three-body, brushed, concave bezel, concave lugs, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, transparent snap-on back. Matte silver with cream painted Breguet numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers. Steel spade hands, white chronograph hand. 18 ''', matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-53-01

Good

Reprinted

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial signed. DIAM. 46 mm. THICKNESS 18 mm. To be sold without reserve