11,400 CHF
MINERVA, OVERSIZED CHRONOGRAPH Minerva, movement No. 1594872, case No. 519561-62. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, oversized, stainless steel wristwatch, with single button chronograph, register and tachometer. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, inclined bezel, snap-on case back. Matte black with applied luminous Arabic numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second/ minute divisions with 5 minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for seconds and 30 minute register, outermost tachometer scale. Luminous white baton hands. 18”’, rhodium-plated, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed, case and movement numbered. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 13 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-05-08
