Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 163

Cartier - Bamboo ? Travel Watch Cartier France, movement made by IWC No. 1876848. Made in the 1960s. Fine, rare and unusual, 18K yellow gold keyless travel - desk and dress watch in the shape of a bamboo box.

C. Four-body, solid, rectangular, walls made of bamboo looking gold bars, slide-out cover with initialed plate: 3K, hinged rectangular inner case. D. Satine silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. C 431, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 3 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial and case signed Cartier, movement signed International Watch Co. Dim 24 x 44 x 13 mm.