Important Watches: Part I

Important Watches: Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 57. Eight Days Tank Allongée | A rare and important 18ct white gold 8-day duration wristwatch with a platinum and gold deployant buckle | Circa 1934.

Cartier, Paris

Eight Days Tank Allongée | A rare and important 18ct white gold 8-day duration wristwatch with a platinum and gold deployant buckle | Circa 1934

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Description

• 18ct white gold case, long brancards with satin finished surfaces and polished chamfered edges, satin finished case sides, downturned gold lugs with screw-set lug bars, satin finished case back secured by 4 screws, flat notched winding crown, French eagle’s head assay to left case side, interior of upper case hand stamped 28830, case back exterior with eagle’s head assay and hand stamped 28830, case back interior with <EJ> Edmond Jaeger punch mark, hand stamped 28830 and signed European Watch & Clock Co.


• white dial signed Cartier, Eight Days, stretched black radial Roman numerals, blued steel Breguet hands, inner chemin-de-fer minute track


• 8¾’’’ x 122/5’’ LeCoultre calibre 124, 9/12 GVH signed European Watch Co. Inc., Swiss, Fab. Suisse, grained decoration, dual mainspring barrels, lever escapement, 18 jewels, bi-metallic compensation balance with timing and poising screws, adjusted to temperature and 2 positions


• 18ct gold and platinum deployant buckle, the D-buckle blade with French dog and eagle head assay marks and hand stamped 18082, inner blade with eagle assay and numbered 82, each blade stamped <EJ> for Edmond Jaeger


Size: 22 x 40mm (width x length including lugs)