Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 594

CARTIER GUILLOTINE ? 24 HOUR DOUBLE DIAL Cartier, Paris, No. 5103/3872. Made circa 1920. Fine and extremely rare, thin and elegant, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch with spring-loaded sliding shutter Roman dial and concealed 24-hour dial.

CHF 16,000 - 20,000

USD 17,000 - 21,000 / EUR 13,000 - 16,000

Sold: CHF 26,250

C. Three-body, polished, the back set with a photographic portrait within a gold frame, front with small glazed aperture for the shuttered dial, revealing the 24-hour dial by pressing the button in the crown. D. Roman dial : bisected silvered satine engine-turned, radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions. 24-hour dial : silvered satine engine-turned, radial Arabic numerals from 13-24. Blued steel poire hands. M. 16 ½ ?'', rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel fl at balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed Cartier, Paris, case numbered. Diam. 45 mm. Property of an Italian collector


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch is an extremely rare and highly unusual variant of the famous Cartier shutter or guillotine watch. Instead of the more usual gold shutters covering the dial, the dial itself is bisected to form the shutters, when the button in the crown is depressed the dial opens to reveal a further matching dial with 24-hour numerals