Visual Description
The Ref. 1100 is the medium Panthère, 26 to 27 mm wide, in stainless steel with a yellow gold bezel, on a signed bracelet of steel and gold links that closes with a double folding clasp.
The dial is silvered, white or cream, with Roman numerals, Cartier's secret signature at VII, a date at 5 o'clock and a center seconds hand, read by blued steel hands under a sapphire crystal.
Reference Significance
The 1100 matches the Ref. 183949 in size, metals and movement and differs in the number on the case back and in date. Fellows catalogs both as a steel case with a yellow metal bezel, 26 to 27 mm, with the date at five.
It is the steel and gold counterpart of the stainless steel medium Ref. 1310, which also has its date at 5 o'clock, and smaller than the 29 mm steel and gold Jumbo Ref. 187957.
Historical Context
Dated examples run from about 1995 to 1998: Dorotheum dates one to about 1995, and Bachmann & Scher sold another made around 1998. The matching 183949 is dated to the 1980s.
What to Look For
Read the case back for 1100, 1100 2 or 110000 R and a serial. The movement has been cataloged as the Cal. 87.06 on most examples and as the Cal. 83 or Cal. 687 on others, so check the movement itself. The bracelet should have all its links and a double folding clasp that closes firmly, with the gold of the bezel and the bracelet matching in color. The dial should show clean Roman numerals and the secret signature at VII, the date should sit at 5 o'clock and change cleanly, and the hands should be blued.
