Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 194

CARTIER PLATINUM & GOLD TONNEAU CINTREE Cartier, Paris, Tonneau Cintrée, made in the 1920s. Very fine, elegant, and rare tonneau-shaped, curved, platinum and pink gold wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, back secured by screws on the band, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, "bombé" crystal, screwed bars. D. "Guilloché" silver with painted radial Roman numerals, inner minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 10???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, bimetallic balance, flat balance spring, 8 adjustments. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Dim. 25 x 35 mm. Thickness 7 mm. Property of a Private Collector