Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 314

Cartier - Platinum "Montre Mysterieuse" Cartier, Paris, case No. 709022, Ref. No. 81003S. Made in a limited series in the 1980s. Very fine and very rare, elegant, platinum, keyless, mystery dress watch. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-piece, solid, polished and brushed, off-center aperture for the mystery hands with brushed chapter ring and engraved black radial Roman numerals, inner minute track, triangular swivel bow. D. Transparent sapphire crystals. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 81003, square with canted corners, 34 x 34 mm, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, aperture below the train for sapphire discs holding the hands. Case and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.