Cartier Collection Privee Tortue Perpetual Calendar 18k White Gold Limited

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This is an 18K white gold Cartier Collection Privee Tortue Perpetual Calendar 2540. It has an alligator leather strap with a white gold folding deployment buckle, and scratch resistant sapphire crystals. There is an octagonal pull out winding crown set with a sapphire cabochon, and correctors for the perpetual calendar at 10 and 8 o'clock on the left-side case band, and two more are on the right side case band at 2 and 4 o'clock. It has an exhibition sapphire display case back secured with 8 screws, and it's engraved with "CARTIER – WATER RESISTANT – 2450 – SWISS MADE," hallmarks, and a serial number. The 34mm by 43mm barrel-shaped tonneau solid two-body case, straight screwed lugs, and convex bezel, are polished. It includes a silver flinque sunray guilloche dial with painted black Roman numeral hour markers, with the Cartier secret signature in the "X" around a black railway-style minute scale with black square hour indices. It has blued steel Breguet-style hands, and there are three silver recessed subsidiary dials with black Arabic numerals, markers, and blued indicator hands, including a radial date register at 9 o'clock, a month and red leap year dial at 6 o'clock, and there is a radial day indicator in French 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 11mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Cartier Collection Privee Tortue Perpetual Calendar 2540 has a mechanical automatic self-winding Cartier caliber 9100 MC movement. It's rhodium-plated and engraved with special Cartier and oeil-de-perdrix embellishment. It's constructed with 29 jewels, a straight-line lever escapement, and a monometallic balance. It includes a shock-absorber device, a self-compensating flat balance-spring, and an 18K white gold rotor with a skeletonized Cartier signature. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz). The Cartier Collection Privee Tortue Perpetual Calendar 2540 was introduced in a limited edition in the 2000's. The Tortue case was designed and introduced in 1912.

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