Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 15, 2015

LOT 88

MINERVA SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH ENAMEL DIAL YELLOW GOLD-PLATED Minerva, Villeret, Suisse, movement No. 1418589, case No. 366877. Made circa 1930. Fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold-plated wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register and tachometer.

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 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, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.