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AN ELEGANT LADY'S BELLE EPOQUE SEED PEARL AND DIAMOND "TONNEAU" WRISTWATCH
The shaped engine-turned dial with Roman chapters and blued-steel hands in a circular-cut diamond frame to the seed pearl lattice bracelet, with rose-cut diamond hexagonal clasp spelling the name "Emma", reverse engraved Baronne Emma Freedericksz, mounted in platinum, circa 1912, 14.5 cm., movement signed by Cartier, numbered 4342, case unsigned
Signed by Cartier, Paris
Provenance: formerly the property of the late Baronne Emma Freedericksz
Cf.: Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier Jewelers Extraordinary, Abrams, Inc., New York, page 274, figure 143, for a similar wristwatch
The shaped engine-turned dial with Roman chapters and blued-steel hands in a circular-cut diamond frame to the seed pearl lattice bracelet, with rose-cut diamond hexagonal clasp spelling the name "Emma", reverse engraved Baronne Emma Freedericksz, mounted in platinum, circa 1912, 14.5 cm., movement signed by Cartier, numbered 4342, case unsigned
Signed by Cartier, Paris
Provenance: formerly the property of the late Baronne Emma Freedericksz
Cf.: Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier Jewelers Extraordinary, Abrams, Inc., New York, page 274, figure 143, for a similar wristwatch