Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 408

?Minute-Repeater? Cartier, Paris, circa 1910. Very fine and rare, thin, 18K yellow gold Art Deco minute-repeating keyless dress watch with gold chain. Accompanied by a fitted box.

HKD 130,000 - 180,000

USD 17,000 - 23,000 / EUR 14,000 - 20,000

Sold: HKD 247,800

C. Three-body, ?bassine pincée?, polished, ribbed band. D. Matte silver with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Bluedsteel ?Breguet? hands. M. 17.5??? (40 mm), rhodium plated, ?faussescotes? decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs through activating the slide in the band. Dial, case numbered. Diam. 48 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

A similar watch was sold by Antiquorum Geneva, in the ?Magical Art of Cartier?, in November 1996, as lot 154, for 74,800 SFr.