Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 153

Cartier - Platinum - Pocket Watch Cartier, Paris, European Watch and Clock Co., case No. 15572. Made circa 1930. Very fine, rare and elegant, thin platinum pocket watch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with initials RG in black enamel inlay. D. Two-tone guilloche silver with printed radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with 5-minute Arabic markers. Blued steel cathedral hands. M. Cal. 15 ½, signed European Watch and Clock Co., rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with eight adjustments, blued steel flat hairspring. Dial signed Cartier, case and movement signed European Watch & Clock Co. Diam. 48 mm. Thickness 7 mm.