Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 167

CARTIER REF. 2619 ROADSTER AUTOMATIC CHRONO YELLOW GOLD Cartier, "Roadster Chronograph, Automatic," case No. 1088510 LX, Ref. 2619. Made in the 2000s. Fine, large, tonneau-shaped, curved, self-winding, water resistant to 100 m, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Cartier deployant clasp.

Two-body, polished, case back secured by 8 screws, screw- down winding-crown, "quick change" system for easy changing of bracelets, sapphire crystal with cyclops lens. Two-tone silvered with black radial Roman numerals and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute track and tachometer scale to 400 UPH, aperture for the date. Luminous blackened baton hands. Cal. 8510, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism.