Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 99

MINERVA SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH ENAMEL DIAL YELLOW GOLD Minerva, Suisse, case No. 358053. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.

CHF 2,500 - 4,500

HKD 21,000 - 37,000 / USD 2,600 - 4,800

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: CHF 3,250

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 Breguet numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, outer red telemeter scale and inner spiral tachometer scale, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers. Blued steel Breguet 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: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 43 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. To be sold without reserve