Lot 60
60
A French silver, purple guilloché enamel, white enamel and variegated agate mounted striking and repeating eight day carriage clock with alarm
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A French silver, purple guilloché enamel, white enamel and variegated agate mounted striking and repeating eight day carriage clock with alarm

CARTIER, PARIS-LONDON. CIRCA 1905

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A French silver, purple guilloché enamel, white enamel and variegated agate mounted striking and repeating eight day carriage clock with alarm
Cartier, Paris-London. Circa 1905
The case with fixed enamel handle with cabochon ends (one lacking), the top with sapphire cabochon repeat button with a diamond-set collar, with agate panels to top, sides and rear, with ribbon-tied silver lanceolate leaf galleries to the top and base, the canted angles with silver leaf mounts applied to guilloché enamel panels banded in white enamel, conforming guilloché bands to cornice and base, the latter also with gold leaf decoration, on tapering feet with French maker's marks, with white enamel bezel to bevelled edge dial glass, the white enamel Roman and Arabic chapter disc signed Cartier/PARIS LONDRES, with gold hands, the movement with twin barrels and silvered platform to cut bimetallic lever balance, strike/repeat/alarm on gong, with enamel alarm-setting disc to back plate with movement number 11096, a block below numbered 5384 to its underside, the rear of the front plate stamped GJ; with original gilt-tooled red leather travel case
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high, over handle
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier, Jewelers Extraordinary, London, 1984, pl.18
Barracca, Negretti & Nencini, Le Temps de Cartier, Milan, 1989, p.34
A Cartier carriage clock of very closely related design was sold Antiquorum Geneva, The Magical Art of Cartier, 19 November 1996, lot 36 (illustrated in its travel case in Nadelhoffer). The dial design may be compared with other Cartier desk clocks of this period illustrated in Barracca et al.

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