1,520,000 HKD
Cartier – Petite Sonnerie Gold & Nephrite Comet Clock The Second Most Complicated Comet Clock Made by Cartier and the only example with Petite Sonnerie to be Offered at Auction Cartier, Paris, No. 2650, the movement by European Watch & Clock Co., Inc., France. Made in the Cartier workshop by Maurice Couet, circa 1930. Magnificent, extremely fine and rare, 8-day going, gold and silver mounted nephrite desk clock with Petite Sonnerie striking, date and days of the week calendar, moon phases and alarm. Accompanied by the original numbered key and a Cartier certificate. Rectangular, nephrite panels within a gold framework, the bezel decorated with a continuous square pattern in black champlevé enamel, outswept solid nephrite base, hinged gold-framed nephrite back door concealing the apertures for winding, setting and regulation. Sunray engine-turned silvered gold, applied gold and white champlevé enamel chapter ring with radial gold Roman numerals intersected by gold rosettes, outer dot minute divisions, gold and champlevé enamel subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week and alarm, royal blue enamel and gold center comet indicators for the calendar and a gold sun for the alarm. Gold and enamel fleur-de-lys hands. 75 x 107 mm., rectangular brass plates, four pillars, going barrels for both trains, straight-line lever escapement mounted on a platform, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, striking the hours and quarters
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
