Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 08, 2014
LOT 244
MINERVA SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH Minerva, Suisse, "Anti-Magnetique". Made in the 1940s. Fine, chromed and stainless steel wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.
CHF 1,500 - 2,500
HKD 12,500 - 21,000 / USD 1,600 - 2,700TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
Sold: CHF 1,875
Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, fluted concave lugs, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return- to-zero functions of the chronograph, pusher at 2 to set the hands in conjunction with the crown, snap-on back. Two-tone matte silver with radial Roman numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, outer red telemeter scale and blue tachometer scale, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers. Blued steel feuille hands. 14 ½ ''', matte gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-11 |
Good Slightly worn |
Movement: 3** |
Good Repair required, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |