Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 21

CARTIER REF. 1543 GALBE GOLD PLATED Cartier Paris, case No. 5-512-118, Ref. 1543. Made in the 1980?s. Fine, rectangular galbé, yellow gold-plated wristwatch with a yellow gold-plated Cartier buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished, stepped bezel, snap-on case back, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with gold painted radial Roman numerals, concentric minute track. Yellow gold epée hands. M. Cal 2512, 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. 28 x 38 mm. THICKNESS 8 mm.