Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 285

CARTIER YELLOW GOLD TANK MECHANICAL Cartier, Paris, ?Tank,? case No. 780862762. Made in the 1990s. Fine and elegant, rectangular, thin, 18K yellow gold mid-sized wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Cartier deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Cartier fitted box.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight lugs, rounded bezel, cabochon sapphire-set winding-crown, case back with 4 screws in the band, screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted black radial Roman numerals, concentric minute track. Blued epée hands. M. Cal. 2512, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 23 x 30 mm. THICKNESS 6 mm.