3,750 CHF
CARTIER YELLOW DRESS WATCH PRESENTED BY CONDE NAST - 'TARGET' DIAL Cartier, Art Deco masterpieces, No. 21535/01678. Made by the European Watch & Clock Co. Inc., circa 1920. Fine and very elegant, thin, 18K yellow gold pocket watch. Three body, polished, wide bezel, coin-edge band, polished back with white champleve enamel initials RW, the interior of the back engraved 'Richardson Wright from Condé Nast 1914- 1924', fluted pendant. Engine-turned silver with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, inner 24-hour numerals. Blued steel spade hands. 16''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel flat balance-spring, index regulator. Dial signed Cartier, movement signed European Watch & Clock Co. Inc., case numbered and punched EJ in a lozenge for Edmond Jaeger. Notes DIAM. 45 mm. An almost identical watch is illustrated in: Le Temps de Cartier, Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, 1989, p. 28.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
