Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 413

Ref. 1680, Tropical "Red Submariner" for Cartier Rolex, ?Oyster Perpetual Date, Cartier, Submariner, 660ft = 200 m, Super-lative Chronometer, Officially Certified?, case No. 3061337, Ref. 1680. Made in 1972 and retailed by Cartier. Very fine and rare, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date and a stainless steel Oyster Oyster ?Fliplock? bracelet. Accompanied by a service certificate from Rolex, New York. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screw-down case back and guarded Triplock crown, graduated bi-directional revolving blue bezel for the decompression times, crystal with cyclops lens. D. Black with "Submariner" in red letters, luminous round, triangular and baton indexes, outer minute/seconds divisions, aperture for the date. Luminous steel skeleton hands. M. Cal. 1570, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.