![A SUPERB AND VERY RARE GOLD OPEN-FACED SKELETONIZED MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH REGISTER, MOON PHASES AND DISPLAY BACK CIRCA 1931 [卡地亞/歐洲鐘錶公司極罕有黃金鏤空三問萬年曆追針計時懷錶備月相顯示及背透蓋，年份約1931]](https://dam.sothebys.com/dam/image/lot/4a22b126-ef0a-4959-8c02-b01e20bb789b/primary/extra_small)
Important Watches featuring Masterworks of Time
Important Watches featuring Masterworks of Time
![View full screen - View 1 of Lot 4. A SUPERB AND VERY RARE GOLD OPEN-FACED SKELETONIZED MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH REGISTER, MOON PHASES AND DISPLAY BACK CIRCA 1931 [卡地亞/歐洲鐘錶公司極罕有黃金鏤空三問萬年曆追針計時懷錶備月相顯示及背透蓋，年份約1931].](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bb7cbc3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1307x2000+0+0/resize/385x589!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F99%2F94%2F10d9401a43608d2efaf4f394ac6a%2F009ge2004-9xjy3-1.jpg)
Cartier/European Watch & Clock Co., Inc.
A SUPERB AND VERY RARE GOLD OPEN-FACED SKELETONIZED MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH REGISTER, MOON PHASES AND DISPLAY BACK CIRCA 1931 [卡地亞/歐洲鐘錶公司極罕有黃金鏤空三問萬年曆追針計時懷錶備月相顯示及背透蓋，年份約1931]
Auction Closed
November 11, 05:36 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Cartier/European Watch & Clock Co., Inc.
A SUPERB AND VERY RARE GOLD OPEN-FACED SKELETONIZED MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WATCH WITH REGISTER, MOON PHASES AND DISPLAY BACK
CIRCA 1931
[卡地亞/歐洲鐘錶公司極罕有黃金鏤空三問萬年曆追針計時懷錶備月相顯示及背透蓋，年份約1931]
• Movement: damascened, lever escapement, 36 jewels, bi-metallic compensation balance, swan-neck precision regulation, the split chronograph mechanism partially visible to the backplate, repeating on coiled gongs, signed European Watch & Clock Co., Inc., Swiss
• Dial: skeletonised silvered, the movement's main-plate with pearled finish visible beneath, four subsidiary dials for day and date, month with leap year indication combined with 30-minute register, subsidiary seconds combined with aperture for moon-phases, the days, months and leap year calibrated in French, outer track for minutes/chronograph seconds, all hands blued steel, signed Cartier
• Case: 18ct gold, polished rounded bezels and band, both sides glazed, scooped bow, sunken repeating slide and split pusher to the band, chronograph pusher through pendant, scooped bow with French control marks, underside of front bezel and case body's inner bezel beneath both with hand stamped numbers 22757 6036 and with French control mark, numbered 06004 to inner bezel beneath case back
diameter 50mm
This rare pocket watch incorporates one of the most complex movements ever supplied by the European Watch & Clock Co. to Cartier. The ebauche is a LeCoultre calibre 17 JSMCCRVQ which was first introduced by the watchmaker in 1928. With an open-work dial, the watch's skeletonised design and glazed case back allow the exceptional finishing of the movement to be fully appreciated. For another example of this LeCoultre calibre see: F. Cologni, Jaeger-LeCoultre - The Story of the Grande Maison, Flammarion, 2006, pp. 8 & 327. This latter watch is also signed to the backplate by the European Watch and Clock Co. and features a very similar open-work dial.
An original archival image of a seemingly identical Cartier watch to the present lot is illustrated in: J. Barracca, G. Negretti, F. Nencini, Le Temps de Cartier, 2nd Ed. 1993, p.194.