Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 33

CARTIER PASHA REF. MG246506 PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD AUTOMATIC Cartier, Pasha, perpetual calendar, case No. 0975. Ref. MG218810. Made in the 1990s. Fine and unusual, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap year indication, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Cartier link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, instruction booklet, and an extra link.

Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 8 screws, concave bezel, screw-down cabochon sapphire-set winding crown cap with security link, pushers in the band, Vendôme-type lugs, sapphire crystals. Textured silver with applied yellow baton indexes on a plain reserve, oval subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, the leap year, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous blued steel "lozenge" hands. aperture for the moon phases at 12. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. Cal. 039, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism.