$6,600
Platinum Tank Mécanique Cartier, Paris, Tank, case No. C129787, Ref. 1601. Made in the 1980s. Very fine and elegant, rectangular, thin, platinum wristwatch with an 18K white gold Cartier deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original warranty and instruction booklet. Two body, solid, polished, back fixed with 4 screws on the band, cabochon sapphire-set winding-crown, screwed bars, sapphire crystal. Guilloche white with painted radial Roman numerals, inner minute track, secret Cartier signature at 7. Blued steel épée hands. Cal. P838, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 24 x 30 mm. Thickness 5 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11
