Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 181

CARTIER SANTOS DUMONT YELLOW GOLD Cartier Paris, Santos, case No. 960610440. Made in the 1990s. Fine and elegant, thin, square, mid-sized, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with a gold-plated Cartier buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case band with 4 screws, polished bezel with pins, cabochon sapphire-set winding crown, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, secret Cartier signature at 7. Blued steel epée hands. M. Cal. 21, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. DIM. 27 x 27 mm. THICKNESS 4.5 mm.