Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 404

CARTIER VENDOME, MECHANICAL BAGUETTE RUBY AND DIAMOND-SET Cartier, Paris, case No. 670804202. Made in the 1990's. Fine, tonneau-shaped, curved, 18K yellow gold and diamond mid-size wristwatch with baguette ruby set bezel and an 18k yellow gold Cartier deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Cartier fitted box.

Two-body, solid, polished, bezel baguette ruby and diamond-set, case back with 4 screws, hooded lugs, diamond-set winding crown, domed sapphire crystal. White with painted radial Roman numerals, inner minute track, secret Cartier signature at VII. Blued steel épée hands. Cal. 7''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed.