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Minerva. A rare stainless steel manual wind split seconds oversized chronograph wristwatchCirca 1950
11 June 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £25,000 inc. premium
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Minerva. A rare stainless steel manual wind split seconds oversized chronograph wristwatch
Circa 1950
Jewelled Valjoux Cal.55 manual wind chronograph movement jewelled to the centre, silvered dial with printed black Arabic numerals and outer seconds, subsidiary dials for running seconds and 30 minute dial, blued steel sword hands and chronograph split seconds activated by the button at 2 and reset via the crown, oversized polished steel case with snap on back, fixed bar lugs, dial signed 42mm.
Jewelled Valjoux Cal.55 manual wind chronograph movement jewelled to the centre, silvered dial with printed black Arabic numerals and outer seconds, subsidiary dials for running seconds and 30 minute dial, blued steel sword hands and chronograph split seconds activated by the button at 2 and reset via the crown, oversized polished steel case with snap on back, fixed bar lugs, dial signed 42mm.
Footnotes
For this actual watch, please see p.177 of Chronograph Wristwatches: To Stop Time by Gerd-R. Lang and Reinhard Meis.
























