Important Watches & Jewelry
New York, Dec 08, 2016
CARTIER TONNEAU ALONGEE YELLOW GOLD Cartier, Paris, "Tonneau Alongée," Made in the 1990s. Very fine, tonneau shaped, curved, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with a gold-plated Cartier buckle.
Two body, solid, polished and brushed, back secured by 4 screws on the band; gold screwed bars, cabochon sapphire- set winding crown, domed sapphire crystal. Guilloche silver with painted radial black Roman numerals, concentric minute track. Blued steel epée hands. Cal. 2512-1, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self- compensating flat balance spring.