Cartier Tank Française automatic ref 2302 - steel & gold - all original w bracelet - ca 2000's

Описание: Hello and welcome! This is a gorgeous stunner in excellent all original condition! It's a Cartier Tank Française automatic ref 2302 from around the year 2000. The Tank is of course very well known; first introduced in 1917, and still an icon to this day. After many decades of that, the Tank Française was launched in 1996; a Tank with an integrated link bracelet (the bracelet is actually separate and can be removed, but it's a very seamless design). Just very beautiful design, and very comfortable on the wrist.


While the ref 2302 has been discontinued, the Tank Française is still in Cartier's catalog nowadays. You have a similar model (slightly smaller than this) with a quartz movement (ref W2TA0003), which sells for €6250, and the automatic version like this one (slightly larger case, ref W51005Q4) sells for €7250.


This watch is in excellent all original condition. The original white guilloché dial is crisp, and is just to beautiful to behold. Really enchanting to see the depth of the dial, all the little accents. The blued hands pop incredibly gorgeously. The pictures really don't do this justice, it looks 100000x nicer in the flesh than in the pics.


The steel case is in excellent condition, it has been gently refinished in the past. Both the crown and crystal are original. The crystal has a few light marks (not very noticeable in the flesh, I only spotted them in the pictures). The watch comes on its original steel and 18k gold Cartier link bracelet, which is in excellent condition as well. It fits up to about 6,75" wrists.


The watch is a ref 2302, powered by an automatic ETA cal 2000-1 from ca 2000. Service history unknown, but it works well and keeps decent time. It runs slightly slow though (about a minute a day), so can likely use a service, or just needs to be regulated again. If desired I can get it fully serviced by my US watchmaker before shipping out; Chandler from cltimeworks.com (@cltimeworks on Instagram). He does excellent work for very fair prices.


The watch measures 28mm width without crown, and 33mm from lug to lug. Works great for men, but also for women. Excellent unisex size nowadays. (for comparison; the original vintage men's Tank is 23mm width x 31mm lug to lug).


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