21,240 CHF
Black Onyx & Rock Crystal "Pendulette Chevalet" Cartier, Paris, "Pendulette Chevalet". Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold and enamel, black onyx, rock crystal and ruby-set, 8-day going, desk clock with mother of pearl dial. Accompanied by the original Cartier gold-tooled morocco leather fitted traveling box. Square carved black onyx, with shaped corners and set with four cabochon rubies, reeded gold bezel with three black enamel lines at each quarter, rectangular rock cyrstal handle with goldand black enamel terminals. Mother of pearl with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute indexes. Yellow gold "teardrop" and "spear" hands. Notes A very similar clock is illustrated in: "Le Temps de Cartier", Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, 1989, p.111.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-10-14
