Robert Cart, made for Robert Pleissner, Dresden. A very fine and unusual 18K white and yellow gold openface keyless lever chronoscope watch

SIGNED ROBERT PLEISSNER, DRESDEN, MOVEMENT SIGNED ROBERT CART AND ROBERT PLEISSNER, DRESDEN, NO. 15316, CASE STAMPED RC AND NUMBERED 50404, CIRCA 1930

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Robert Cart, made for Robert Pleissner, Dresden. A very fine and unusual 18K white and yellow gold openface keyless lever chronoscope watch
Signed Robert Pleissner, Dresden, movement signed Robert Cart and Robert Pleissner, Dresden, no. 15316, case stamped RC and numbered 50404, circa 1930
With nickel-finished jewelled lever movement, bimetallic compensation balance, the silvered engine-turned dial with sunburst design, window for the jumping Arabic hours, outer ring calibrated for the Arabic five minutes indicated by a wandering arrow-shaped hand, in circular white gold case, the yellow gold bezel with inlaid black enamel signs of the zodiac, divided by inlaid green enamel hour markers, yellow gold bow, the white gold snap on back with yellow gold rim with inlaid green enamel decoration, centred by an applied yellow and white gold lozenge-shaped cartouche and initials, case stamped RC for Robert Cart, dial signed Robert Pleissner, Dresden, movement signed Robert Cart and Robert Pleissner, Dresden
46 mm. diam.

Lot Essay

Accompanied by a two colour gold fob composed of three tapering sections.

The present watch is fitted with the "wandering hour" system patented by the Swiss watchmaker Robert Cart around 1925 which was used by renowned companies such as Gübelin and Breguet (see lot 299).

The expression "Chronoscope" is derived from the Greek "chronos" for time and "scope" for range, sector and stands for an instrument for accurate measurements of small intervals of time.

Robert Pleissner in Dresden was a retailer of fine watches, notably those of A. Lange & Söhne

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