Visual Description
The Ref. 1060 is the medium Panthère in 18k yellow gold, 27 to 28 mm wide. Bonhams describes a pale champagne dial with black Roman numerals and the date at 3 o'clock, read by blued steel sword hands; Analog/Shift and Lyon & Turnbull catalog white dials with Roman numerals, and Analog/Shift a sapphire crystal. The case runs into a brick-link bracelet in 18k gold that closes with a signed double folding clasp.
Reference Significance
The 1060 is the medium Panthère in 18k yellow gold under a four-digit number. It matches the Ref. 887968 and the Ref. 8839 in size, metal and movement and differs in the number on the case back; each number keeps its own page, and no source found explains how they relate. It is about the size of the steel and gold Ref. 1100, which has the date at 5 o'clock, and larger than the small gold Ref. 1070.
Historical Context
Bonhams dates a 1060 to about 1990, and Antiquorum and Analog/Shift date examples to the 1990s. Bachmann & Scher gives 1995 for a 1060 2, Dorotheum about 1995, and Lyon & Turnbull records that its 1060 2 was bought in 1997. Bonhams names the movement as the 7-jewel Cartier Cal. 87.06. No source found gives a first or last year for the reference.
What to Look For
Read the case back for 1060 or 1060 2 and a serial. Measure the case: catalogs give 27 to 28 mm wide. Two catalogs describe a 1060 2 in gold and steel, Bachmann & Scher on a gold and steel bracelet, so check which parts of a given watch are gold. The bracelet should have all its links and a folding clasp that closes firmly. Check that the date changes at 3 o'clock, that the Roman numerals are clean and the hands blued, and that the quartz movement runs.
