Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2011

LOT 253

Cartier Santos Dumont Cartier Paris, "Santos Dumont? Mecanique", case No. 8210530403. Made in the 1990's. Fine and elegant, thin and square, 18K yellow gold lady?s wristwatch with 18K yellow gold Cartier deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

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. Guilloché silver with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, secret Cartier signature on the X. Blued steel épée 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. 23 x 23 mm. Thickness 4 mm.