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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 18, 1998

LOT 505

Cartier, Paris, No. 29872-32773, entered in the registers on 19 February 1937, retailed by Hermes. Very fine and elegant extra slim, 18K keyless dress watch "forme nouvelle", drawing No. 1647.

CHF 4,000 - 5,000

C. Two piece, massive, "knife edge", satine. D. Silver two tone with Roman numerals and clot indexes. Gold "Orientales Cartier" hands. M. 17', rhodium plated, caliber 145, signed European Watch and Clock Co., "fausses cotes" decoration, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance adjusted to temperatures and in two positions, flat balance spring. Signed on the dial and movement. Diam. 48 mm.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 14-35

Damaged

To be restored
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 4-51

Fair

Partially reprinted

Notes

Presented to the public in 1903 by I_,eCoult-e as the thinnest watch movement in the world. At 1,38 mm., the calibre 145 remains unique to this day. It is illustrated by Manfred Fritz in Reverso, In legeiarle vivant, published by Jaeger LeCoultre, Brasses Editions 1992, pp. 144-145, as a highlight in the history of the firm's production.