2,500 CHF
MINERVA SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH ENAMEL DIAL SILVER Minerva, Villeret, Suisse, case No. 358456. Made in the 1920s. Fine and rare, large, silver 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 scales, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers. Blued steel feuille hands. 16 ½ ''', rhodium plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Notes Dial and movement signed, case numbered. DIAM. 42 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
