Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Monaco, Jul 19, 2022
LOT 313
CARTIER
8-DAY GOING PRE ART-DECO MINIATURE CARRIAGE-CLOCK, MINUTE-REPEATER; SILVERED BRASS AND AGATE
EUR 6,000 - 9,000
USD 6,300 - 9,500 / HKD 49,200 - 74,000 / CHF 6,000 - 9,000
Sold: EUR 7,150
Silvered brass and agate, 8-day going, key-winding, vertical rectangular-shaped, pre-Art Deco miniature carriage-clock (so-called “mignonette”), with one horological complication:
· Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the quartz push-piece on the top)
Silvered brass cabinet with a décor of foliage engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut); yellow gold bezel decorated en suite.
White enamel dial with suspended “Breguet” numerals; rose-cut diamond-set “Fantasy Arrow” silver hands.
Movement signed “Nocturne”, 55.4 x 20.8 mm. (including low-plate and false-dial plate), rectangular, gilded-brass, going barrel, platform with straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balancewith gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.
Silvered brass cabinet with a décor of foliage engraved in taille-douce (fine-cut); yellow gold bezel decorated en suite.
White enamel dial with suspended “Breguet” numerals; rose-cut diamond-set “Fantasy Arrow” silver hands.
Movement signed “Nocturne”, 55.4 x 20.8 mm. (including low-plate and false-dial plate), rectangular, gilded-brass, going barrel, platform with straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balancewith gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |
Brand Cartier, Paris
Model made by E. Mathey-Tissot & Co., Les Ponts-de-Martel
Year circa 1905-1910
Movement No. 2 122
Case No. 3 660
Material silvered brass and agate
Caliber “Nocturne”, platform with straight-line lever escapement
Dimensions 72.2 x 58.6 x 50.2 mm. (without the push-piece)
Weight 308.6 gr. (approx.)
Signature dial (by the retailer) and movement (by the maker)
Accessories copies of the invention patents
Notes
Movement based on the Swiss invention patents:
· No. 21 800, delivered on July 12, 1900, to E. Mathey-Tissot & Co., Les Ponts-de-Martel, for a “Mécanisme de répétition à minutes”;
· No. 25 658, delivered on April 2, 1902, to E. Mathey-Tissot & Co., Les Ponts-de-Martel, for a “Régulateur de vitesse du petit rouage des montres à repetition”.
· No. 30 225, delivered on February 17, 1904, to E. Mathey- Tissot & Co., Les Ponts-de-Martel, for a “Pendule à repetition”.