Cartier Privee Collection Tortue Monopoussoir Chronograph 18K Yellow Gold W15257

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This is an 18k yellow gold Cartier Privee Collection Tortue Monopoussoir Chronograph W1543551. It includes an alligator leather strap with an 18k yellow gold deployment buckle and scratch resistant sapphire crystals (domed over the dial). It has an octagonal pull-out winding crown set with a sapphire cabochon and an exhibition sapphire display crystal case back secured with 8 screws and engraved with "CARTIER – WATER RESISTANT – 2356 – 18K," and a serial number. The 34mm by 43mm (including lugs) solid two-body tonneau-shaped case with 4 screws on each side of the case band, straight lugs, and convex curved bezel, are polished. The dial is silver with sunray guilloche and concentric circle patterning, black Roman numeral hour markers (with the Cartier "secret signature" in the VII) surrounded by a railway-style black second/minute scale with Arabic numerals every five seconds to 60. It has blued Cartier "observatoire" style minute and hour hands, a blued center sweep second hand with a circular counterbalance, and there are twin recessed silver subsidiary dials with black Arabic numerals, railway-style scales, and blued indicator hands, including a running constant small seconds register at 9 o'clock, and there is a 30-minute chronograph totalizer at the 3 o'clock position. It's water resistant to 30 meters/100 feet, it has a 40-hour power reserve at full winding, and the 10.5mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Cartier Privee Collection Tortue Monopoussoir Chronograph W1525751 has a mechanical manual winding Cartier caliber 045MC column wheel chronograph movement with an ebauche designed by THA, a company formed by Vianney Halter, F.P. Journe, and Denis Flageollet. The nickel lever movement is rhodium plated with special Cartier embellishment on the bridges. It's constructed with 22 jewels, 157 components, a straight-line lever escapement, and a shock absorber device. It includes a clutch system with a swivel pin (providing no second-hand jump), a monometallic balance, and the mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 21,600 vph (3 Hz). The Cartier Privee Collection Tortue Monopoussoir Chronograph W1525751 was introduced in the 2000's.

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