Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Monaco, Jan 19, 2023
LOT 7
CARTIER
8-DAY GOING PRE-ART-DECO MINIATURE CARRIAGE-CLOCK, FIVE-MINUTE-REPEATER; GILDED BRASS, ENAMEL AND QUARTZ
EUR 15,000 - 30,000
USD 16,100 - 32,200 / HKD 126,000 - 252,000 / CHF 14,900 - 29,700
Gilded brass and enamel, key-winding, vertical rectangular-shaped, 8-day going, pre-Art-Deco miniature carriage-clock (so-called “mignonette”), with five-minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the quartz push-piece on the top).
Gilded brass cabinet with a décor of Vieux-rose (light-rose) flinqué enamel (translucent enamel over guilloché engine-turning) panels with “sunburst” pattern; yellow gold and enamel bezel; mounted on four faceted quartz feet.
White enamel dial with suspended “Breguet” numerals; yellow gold “Louis XVI” 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 and London
Model movement made by E. Mathey-Tissot & Co., Les Ponts-de-Martel (Neuchâtel mountains)
Year circa 1905-1910
Movement No. 791
Case No. 1 536
Material gilded brass, enamel and quartz
Caliber “Nocturne”, platform with straight-line lever escapement
Dimensions 63 x 49 x 39 mm. (without the push-piece)
Weight 295.7 gr. (approx.)
Signature dial and movement (by the maker)
Accessories brass and steel winding-key; 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”.