Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 176

Cartier - Tank Americaine Cartier, Paris, ?Tank Americaine,? No. 034170. Made in the 1980s. Very fine and rare, rectangular, curved and elongated, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Cartier deployant clasp.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, curved bezel, straight lugs, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, case back secured by 4 screws on the band, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted black radial graduated Roman numerals, concentric minute track. Blued steel epee hands. M. 8???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 20 x 36 mm. Thickness 7 mm.