Visual Description
The Ref. 1035 is a 35 mm Pasha in 18k yellow gold, with a screw-down crown set with a sapphire cabochon under a protective cover on a security link, a date and a case back secured by eight screws.
Its dials are cream or white-silver with Arabic numerals and luminous dots under a smooth or polished bezel, plain silvered, or silver guilloché with painted Roman numerals under a rotating bezel; European Watch Co. sold the guilloché kind with a sapphire crystal. Most examples are on an integrated 18k gold Cartier bracelet with a double folding clasp.
Reference Significance
The 1035 is the 35 mm Pasha in 18k yellow gold. The Ref. 2324 is the same size in stainless steel, and the 1035 shares its Cal. 049 as Antiquorum and Sotheby's catalog it.
Historical Context
The dated examples run from about 1997 to the 2010s. Aguttes sold one of circa 1997 with an international warranty certificate dated December 1997, and the later examples are dated circa 2000, the 2000s and circa 2010 to 2020. No source found gives the year the reference was introduced or discontinued.
What to Look For
Read the case back for 1035 and measure the case: catalogs give 35 mm, and Sotheby's 35.5 mm. Ask for a photograph of the movement, which should be the Cal. 049; one older Antiquorum catalog gives a 1035 at 38 mm on the Cal. 191, which no other source matches.
Check that the crown and its protective cover screw down with the cabochon in place and that the gold bracelet and its folding clasp are Cartier's. On a diamond-set example, ask for Cartier papers that record the setting.
