3,250 CHF
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. 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. Notes Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 43 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. To be sold without reserve
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
