Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 38

MINERVA DOCTOR'S SINGLE BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH BIG SIZE PINK GOLD Minerva, Villeret, "1858 Fait Main A Villeret", movement No. 122000, case No. A187022, Ref. M162901. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, oversized, heavy 18K pink gold, manually-wound wristwatch with single-button chronograph, register, pulsation scale and an 18K pink gold Minerva buckle. Accompanied by a large and impressive Minerva wooden box and guarantee (blank).

Four-body, polished and brushed, concave bezel, fluted concave lugs, crown with lacquer insert of a gold arrow on a blue ground, curved band, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return- to-zero functions of the chronograph, glazed back with 6 screws, hinged solid cover over the glazed back, sapphire crystals. Brushed and guilloche gray with applied pink gold baton indexes and blued steel Arabic half-hour numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, outer scale graduated for 30 pulsations, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 16-29, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorbers, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator.