Important Collectors’ Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Oct 14, 2007

LOT 98

Yellow Gold "Tank à guichet" Cartier, Paris, "Tank à guichet", No. 1. Made in a limited series of 3 pieces in 1996. Very fine and very rare, elegant, rectangular, 18K yellow gold digital wristwatch with a 18K pink gold Cartier deployant clasp.

C. Rectangular, ?Tank?, brushed, apertures for the hours and minutes, recessed winding crown between the curved lugs at 12, the back secured with screws. D. Matte silvered discs for the hours and minutes with painted black Arabic numerals, the minutes with outer minute track. M. Cal. 219, 9???, rhodium-plated, ?fausses cotes? decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Case and movement signed. Dim. 36 x 24 mm. Thickness 6 mm.