Geneva, Nov 06, 2021

LOT 55

PLATINUM CARTIER SPLIT SECOND CHRONOGRAPH

CHF 20,000 - 40,000

HKD 170,000 - 338,000 / USD 21,700 - 43,400 / EUR 18,700 - 37,300

Sold: CHF 37,500

Very fine and extremely rare, platinum dress watch with split-seconds chronograph and progressive 30-minute register, one of only two known examples of this model in platinum. Chronograph pusher between 10 and 11 for the split-second, button in the crown for start/stop of the chronograph.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Brand Cartier

Year Made in 1922

Diameter 49 mm

Caliber 8’’’, frosted gilt, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible steel chronograph work.

Signature Dial, Case numbered

Accessories Cartier box

Notes

The present watch would appear to be the first platinum split-seconds chronograph pocket watch by Cartier without additional complication to be offered at auction and one of only two examples known to date. The other is illustrated in: Le Temps de Cartier, Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, 1989, p. 326. Split-seconds dress watches by Cartier are extremely rare and were made in very small numbers in the early 1920’s. The movements were made either by the European Watch & Clock Co. or by Audemars Piguet, who also made another much later series of such watches for Cartier in the 1950’s.