43,200 CHF
Rotonde, Day and Night Cartier, Paris, “Collection Privée, Rotonde Day and Night”, case and movement No. 085, Ref. 28731. Sold in May 2007. Very fine and rare, large, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with retrograde minute hand, special day and night indicator and an 18K white gold Cartier deployant clasp. Accompanied by a certificate and user’s manual. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, curved lugs with screw bars, sapphire cabochon-set crown, transparent case back with 8 screws, sapphire crystals. Guilloché silvered, painted Roman and Arabic numerals indexes, aperture for the central engraved rosette revolving disc for the day/night and hour indication, sector for the retrograde minutes indication. Blued steel Breguet hand. Cal. 9903 MC, rhodium-plated, Cartier logo decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-05-11
