$3,450
Cartier, Paris, circa 1910. Very fine and elegant, 18K yellow gold and enamel keyless couteau dress watch. Two piece extra slim, massive with knife edge, engine-turned with a white champleve enamelled line on the border, the back centred with small monogram enamelled en suite within a white enamel frame. Silver engine-turned with Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 16" nickel plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, eight adjustments, Breguet balance spring with micrometric index. Signecl on the dial, case and movement. Diam. 48 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-12-15