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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 162

Cartier, Paris Londres, circa 1905.Fine and rare enamel, leather-covered, ?cantine automobile? traveling clock with barometer.

C. Large, circular plaque with translucent green enamel over ?sunburst? engine-turning with aperture at 4 o'clock for the clock, at 8 o'clock for the barometer and at 12 o'clock a silver plaque with Saint Christopher within a white enamel frame with the inscription ?REGARDE ST. CHRISTOPHE, PUIS VA-T-EN RASSURÉ?. Three cabochon opals separating the dials and the plaque. D. ?Louis XV? style, convex, white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, large five-minute Arabic markers. Gold fancy hand. Barometer: white enamel with the pressure calibrated from 680 to 790 and corresponding weather conditions. Gold ?Arrow? hand. Both dials within white enamel frames decorated with gold stars. M. 43.2 mm, gilt brass, 3/4 split plate, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring, barometer of aneroid type with rack and pinion transmission and vacuum can.Diam. 150 mm.