Important Collectors Wristwatches, Po...

Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 251

Stainless Steel Roadster Chronograph Cartier, ?Roadster Chronograph, Automatic?, case No. 263094BB, Ref. 2618. Made circa 2005. Fine, tonneau-shaped, curved, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a ?quick change? stainless steel Cartier link bracelet with concealed double deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box.

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 minute track, aperture for the date. Luminous black 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 47 mm. Thickness: 12 mm. Approx. overall length 215 mm.