Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 173

Cartier ?Santos Dumont? Cartier Paris, "Santos ? Mechanic," case No. 960541266. Made in the 1990s. Fine and elegant, thin and square, mid-sized, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with 18K yellow gold Cartier deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case band with 4 screws, polished bezel with 8 pins, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, secret Cartier signature on the VII. Blued steel epée hands. M. Cal. 21, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 27 x 36 mm. Thickness 4 mm.