Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 08, 2014
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.
TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE
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.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |