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Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 250

Yellow Gold Roadster Chronograph Cartier, ?Roadster Chronograph, Automatic,? case No. 83295 CE, Ref. 2619. Made in the 2000s. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped, curved, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Cartier deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box, additional bracelets, guarantee and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished, case back secured by 8 screws, screw-down winding-crown, "quick change" system for easy changing of bracelets, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. D. Two-tone silvered with black radial Roman numerals, secret Cartier signature at VII, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute track, aperture for the date. Luminous blackened baton hands. M. Cal. 8510, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 40 x 38 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.