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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 59. A yellow gold, enamel, onyx, and diamond-set miniature triptych desk timepiece, Circa 1928 | 卡地亞 黃金、琺瑯、黑瑪瑙及鑽石細密畫三屏座鐘,製作年份約 1928.

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A yellow gold, enamel, onyx, and diamond-set miniature triptych desk timepiece, Circa 1928 | 卡地亞 黃金、琺瑯、黑瑪瑙及鑽石細密畫三屏座鐘,製作年份約 1928

Auction Closed

December 9, 06:25 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

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Cartier


A yellow gold, enamel, onyx, and diamond-set miniature triptych desk timepiece, Circa 1928


卡地亞 黃金、琺瑯、黑瑪瑙及鑽石細密畫三屏座鐘,製作年份約 1928


Dial: dial concealed beneath hinged shutters, Roman numeral chapter ring, engine-turned center, dial signed Cartier Brevete 

Caliber: mechanical 

Movement: movement back plate signed Cadran Brevete, 6816, .7931.  

Case: quadrangular, the winder and setting pin concealed beneath hinged doors at the back, overall heightened by opaque black enamel geometric motif, mounted on a molded onyx base and the top set with an onyx panel, the shutters further decorated with opaque black enamel geometric motif, latch fitted with rose cut diamonds 

Case number: door interior stamped HYA 313, another door hand stamped 100 1397 

Size: 30 x 60 x 24 mm 

Box: no

Papers: no

Cartier Paris 1989 
Catalogue: The Art of Cartier, Musée du Petit Palais October 19, 1989 - January 28, 1990, page 151, number 412 
A similar piece is illustrated in Baracca, J., Negretti, G. & Nencini, F., Le Temps de Cartier, p.177.