Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 14, 2011

LOT 291

CARTIER SANTOS DUMONT Cartier, Paris, Santos, No. 4745, case No. 960610494. Made in the 1990's. Fine, elegant and unusual, thin and square, mid-sized, 18K yellow and white gold 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 white gold 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 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. 27 x 36 mm. Thickness 4 mm.