Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 34

CARTIER PASHA REF. MG246506 AUTOMATIC YELLOW GOLD Cartier, Pasha, two-time zone, case No. 0985. Ref. MG246506. Made in the 1990s. Fine and unusual, two-time zone, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with moon phases, day-date and an 18K yellow gold Cartier deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box.

Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 8 screws, unidirectional revolving graduated bezel, 2 screw-down cabochon sapphire-set winding crown caps with security link, pusher for time zone adjustments between 4 & 5, Vendôme-type lugs, sapphire crystals. Textured silver with applied yellow gold round indexes on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the second 24-hour time zone at 6, the date at 3 and the days of the week at 9, 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.