18,750 CHF
CARTIER AGATE & GOLD MONTRE DE BUREAU Cartier, Paris, No. 798. Made circa 1920. Fine, agate, silver-gilt, gold, champlevé enamel, sapphire and rose-cut diamond-set 8-day going desk clock. Square with outset corners, polished agate, gold bezel decorated with gold scrolls on a white champleve enamel ground, each corner set with a cabochon sapphire in a beaded mount, silver-gilt drum case for the movement with hinged strut. Matte silver with Arabic numerals, outer minute track, the center with sunray engine-turned decoration. Rose-cut diamond-set fancy hands. 43 mm., rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, index regulator. Notes Dial signed Cartier, case numbered. DIM. 81 mm. Square.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
