Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 445

CARTIER YELLOW GOLD MONTRE COUTEAU Cartier, ?Montre Couteau?, No. 19390/17940, the movement by European Watch and Clock Co., Inc. Made circa 1925. Very fine and rare, thin, 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch.

C. Two-body, ?couteau?, polished, the back with a central blue champleve enamel monogram, triangular bow. D. Matte silver, with radial engine-turning, radial Roman numerals on an inner chapter ring, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals. Blued steel halberd hands. M. Signed European Watch and Clock Co., Inc., Swiss, 16 1/2???, rhodium plated,fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial signed Cartier, case numbered and stamped EJ in a lozenge for Edmond Jaeger, movement signed European Watch and Clock Co., Inc. DIAM. 47 mm.