Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 175

MINERVA SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH ENAMEL DIAL CHROME Minerva, Swiss, case No. 340240. Made circa 1930. Fine, large, chromed wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register and tachometer.

Three-body, polished, steel inclined 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 scale, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers. Blued steel Breguet hands. 17 ''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator.