Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 24

"Pendulette de voyage miniature" Cartier, Paris, "Pendulette de voyage miniature". Made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, small, silver gilt, enamel and agate, 8-day going carriage clock with diamond-set hands. Accompanied by in the original fitted red leather traveling box and winding key.

C. Rectangular, white champlevé enameled borders and bezel, top and side panels decorated with vertical silver gilt and blue enamel stripes, agate rectangular base. D. Framed by ring with white enameled dots, ?guilloché? silver with painted Arabic numerals. Single-cut diamond-set hands. M. Gilt brass, rectangular with going barrel, straight line lever escapement set on the back plate, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring. Dial signed. Dim. 60 x 36 x 28 mm.