84,000 HKD
Cartier, No. 96851. Made circa 1913. Very fine and rare, opalescent enamel and diamond-set, gold, platinum, silver and silver-gilt, 8-day going strut clock. To be sold without reserve Three-body, circular, the front and side overlaid with pink opalescent enamel over a guilloche engine-turned ground, white enamel line borders, gold bezel with white enamel “pearls”, drum case housing the movement, hinged silver gilt strut. White enamel, convex, bold dauphine numerals, outer minute track with Arabic fifteen-minute numerals. Rose-cut diamondset platinum hands. 19’’’, matte, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed, case numbered. Diam. 78 mm Notes An almost identical clock with blue enamel case is illustrated in: Le Temps de Cartier, Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, 1989, p. 60.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
