Important Watches

Important Watches

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 52. Comet | A splendid, rare and highly attractive rock crystal, yellow gold, platinum, enamel, sapphire and diamond-set strut clock, Circa 1913.

Property from an Erudite Collector

Cartier

Comet | A splendid, rare and highly attractive rock crystal, yellow gold, platinum, enamel, sapphire and diamond-set strut clock, Circa 1913

Session begins in

December 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

· gilded 8-day movement, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel balance spring with overcoil, numbered 98395

· circular guilloché enamel dial of translucent sky-blue enamel, star-form hour pointer of platinum and rose-cut diamonds, old European-cut-navette-shaped diamond indicating the minutes, the minute and hour pointers mounted on revolving crystal discs, central diamond-set fleurette

· Rock crystal arched case, applied open-work platinum and rose-cut diamond-set arched cat with cabochon emerald-set eye, two collet-set cabochon-set sapphires to left and right, gold and white enamel chapter ring with Roman numeral and fleurette half-hour indexes, inner minute ring of gold dots, all calibrations in reserve, edge of chapter ring set with row of French-cut sapphires channel-set in yellow gold, case back chromed and with apertures for winding and hand-setting

 

With a Cartier Certificate of Authenticity No. GE2001-303.

No. 98395

width 68mm

height 82mm