Lot 362

Cartier

A very fine vintage bicolor wristwatch with full calendar and moon phase

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The distinguishing features of the silvered dial are the gold-coloured and bevelled hour indexes and the large aperture for the display of the moon phase; they are surrounded by the date ring with red numerals. The date hand has an arrow-shaped red tip, while hour and minute hand are both alpha hands. Day of the week and month are displayed in two windows in French language. The unusual form of the wide lugs not only make the 33 mm case look larger and very modern, they also guarantee extremely comfortable wear.

Interestingly, inside is the hand-wound Jaeger-LeCoultre calibre P484/1AW. Cartier ordered a small series of this calibre from Jaeger-LeCoultre. To make this not quite obvious, Cartier has changed the barrel bridge a little. The rest is the same. Jaeger-LeCoultre used the calibre from the 1950s until the 1970s. The fifteen jewels, unadjusted movement is signed 'European Watch & Clock Co. Inc. Fab. Swiss'.