Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 303

"Paysage Oriental" Cartier, Paris, "Pendule de bureau" No. 220931, Made in 1986. Very fine and rare 18K gold (12g), silver (298.3g), lacquer, mother-of-pearl, and rock crystal, diamond-set (158 brilliant-cut totaling 1.37cts) 8-day going Art Deco style strut clock. Accompanied by its original red leather fitted box and a letter from Cartier.

C. Gadrooned square circular rock crystal case with canted corners, mother-of-pearl inlayed silver gilt chapter ring with diamond-set gold double baton indexes, silver gilt case back with rock crystal strut. D. Black lacquer with abalone shell marquetry inlay depicting a Japanese garden with figures and a house in the foreground and a lake and mountains in the background. Diamond-set hands. M. Gilt 19??? movement, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Case and movement signed. Dim: 16.5 x 16.5 cm