Yellow Gold, Black Luminous Dial
Chronograph 2512 — Yellow Gold, Black Luminous Dial
Yellow-gold case, black dial with luminous Arabic numerals; made 1950, sold 1952; the museum example hammered at CHF 1,439,750 in 2000.
Identifying details
- Chronograph
Stopwatch function with registers.
- Arabic numerals
Arabic hour numerals in place of Cartier’s usual Roman numerals.
- Tachymeter scale on dial
Tachymeter track printed on the dial.
Variants of 2512
Reference overview →| Variant | Production |
|---|---|
| Yellow Gold, Black Luminous DialCurrent | Undated |
Case & movement
- Reference
- 2512
- Production
- Undated
- Case material
- 18k yellow gold
- Case diameter
- 46 mm
- Movement
- Manual winding
- Date
- No
- Caliber
- Patek Philippe 13-130
Dial, bezel & hands
- Dial colour
- Black
Unknown attributes are left out rather than guessed.
Movement
Patek Philippe 13-130
13-ligne column-wheel chronograph built on a Valjoux 13''' ébauche (Valjoux cal. 23 base) and finished by Patek Philippe; catalogued simply as “cal. 13'''”. Powered the ref. 130 and the 1940s–1960s chronographs.