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Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 237

?Steel Roadster Chronograph? Cartier, ?Roadster Chronograph, Automatic?, Ref. 2618, case No. 28320 CE. Made circa 2004. Fine, tonneau-shaped, curved, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a ?quick change? kevlar strap with a Cartier deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, screwed-down winding-crown, "quick change" system for easy changing of bracelets, case back with 8 screws, sapphire crystal with "cyclops" lens. D. Two-tone silver with painted black radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Luminous blackened "baton" hands. M. Cal. 8510, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, hack mecanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 47 mm. Thickness: 13 mm. Property of an Swiss collector