CARTIER. A FINE LIMITED EDITION 18K GOLD ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH

SIGNED CARTIER, PARIS, "CRASH", NO. 034-91, A 108330, CIRCA 1991

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CARTIER. A FINE LIMITED EDITION 18K GOLD ASYMMETRICAL WRISTWATCH
Signed Cartier, Paris, "Crash", No. 034-91, A 108330, circa 1991
With nickel-finished lever movement, mono-metallic balance, silvered matte dial with stylized Roman numerals, secret Cartier signature at seven o'clock, the asymmetrical case of unusual form, the back secured with four screws, case, dial and movement signed, with an 18K gold Cartier deployant clasp
38mm length

Lot Essay

The "Crash" model is designed after the "Limp" watch in Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory from 1931, now exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Dali got his inspiration for the "Limp" watch from Camembert cheese and described it with the phrase "nothing else than the tendor, extravagant and solitary paranoic-critical Camembert of time and space".

A similar watch is illustrated in Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, Le Temps de Cartier, p. 295.

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