129,800 HKD
“Medical Chronograph” Cartier, No. 5831/25025, movement by European Watch & Clock Co. Inc. Made circa 1925. Fine and rare, thin, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch with chronograph, register and pulsometer. Three-body, “demi-bassine”, polished, the back cover with white champlevé enamel initials A.P.R. Matte silver with champlevé dauphine numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, five minute/second Arabic numerals, outermost pulsometer scale graduated to 200 pulsations. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 38 mm., 17’’’, rhodiumplated, “fausses cotes” decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial signed Cartier, movement signed European Watch & Clock Co., Inc. Diam. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-02
