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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008
LOT 89
Platinum Thin Minute-Repeater Cartier, case No. 3131. Made in the 1920s. Very fine, thin and elegant, minute-repeating, platinum keyless dress watch.
HKD 210,000 - 260,000
USD 27,000 - 34,000 / EUR 17,000 - 21,000
C. Three-body, ?bassine pincée?, polished. D. Frosted silver with large champleve Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 18???, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial signed Cartier, case numbered, movement numbered 3131. Diam. 49 mm
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 4-6-30-01 |
Fair Slightly oxidized Alterations HANDS Original |