10,625 CHF
CARTIER ART DECO NEPHRITE & GOLD DESK CLOCKN Cartier, "Montre de Bureau carrée à poignée", No. 1649/3043. Made circa 1925. Very fine and rare, nephrite, yellow gold and enamel 8-day going desk clock. Square with stepped rounded corners carved from a single piece of nephrite, yellow gold bezel with two royal blue champlevé enamel concentric rings, hinged yellow gold handle decorated to match with gold block terminals, silver-gilt back with 4 screws and apertures for hand-setting and winding. Matte silver with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, sunray engine-turned center. Yellow gold pierced circle and arrow hands. 19''', matte gilt, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Notes Dial signed, case numbered. DIM. 60.5 mm. Square.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
