Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 930

CARTIER "PENDULETTE DE VOYAGE A REPETITION MINUTES" Cartier, Paris, No. 4014/315/HSA 662 . Made circa 1910. Very fine and very rare, minute-repeating, gold on silver, enamel and rose-cut diamond-set, 8-day going desk clock.

Rectangular gold on silver, satine engine-turned on all sides, white champleve enameled borders with fluted edges, the bezel decorated with white enamel "pearls", side panels centred with small applied rose cut diamond-set stars on white enamel reserves, shuttered winding holes, cylindrical moonstone repeat button, raised on a carved and polished agate base. Convex white enamel with dauphine numerals, outer gold painted minute track. Rose-cut diamond set arrow hands. Gilt brass by Nocturne, rectangular with going barrel, frosted and gilt platform with straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by depressing the push-piece at the top.