
A platinum and rock crystal mounted openface keyless lever watch, Circa 1925
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September 19, 03:00 AM GMT
Estimate
65,000 - 95,000 HKD
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Description
Cartier, Paris
A platinum and rock crystal mounted openface keyless lever watch, Circa 1925
Dial: silvered dial signed Cartier France with vertical engine-turning, outer minute track with triangular-form hour markers, blued steel Breguet hands
Calibre: 10’’’ LeCoultre movement signed European Watch and Clock Co. Inc.
Movement number: numbered to movement beneath dial 12’790, 1
Case: rock crystal case with platinum mounts
Case number: numbered 3’946 to exterior and 51 to inside edge, back of chapter ring’s XII partially stamped 2 5, bezel interior stamped 22’451
Size: 44 mm diameter
Accessories: Cartier presentation box
The art of carving and shaping rock crystal, a transparent and colourless form of quartz, dates back to antiquity. Exquisite objects were made in crystal by the Romans, but the working of rock crystal reached an unparalleled level of sophistication and refinement in Egypt during the Fatimid period (969-1171). During this era, artisans in Cairo produced extraordinary rock crystal vessels for their rulers, demonstrating remarkable skill and artistry.
Olivier Bachet & Alain Cartier, Cartier Exceptional Objects, Hong Kong, Palais Royale, 2019. See p. 421 for a similar example.
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